Moonshot: a DMD fork that outputs Lua

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On Tuesday, 21 February 2017 at 12:45:47 UTC, Mithun Hunsur wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been working on a little project over the last month and a 
> half, inspired by Adam's dtojs 
> (https://github.com/adamdruppe/dtojs). I've always wanted a 
> typed, powerful, embeddable scripting language, but found the 
> contenders lacking - which is why I decided to hack up DMD to 
> emit Lua.
>
> Introducing Moonshot (https://github.com/Philpax/moonshot)!
>
> Moonshot's based off an early DMD 2.074, and builds up a Lua 
> AST from the D AST. It aims to compile a reasonable subset of 
> @safe code, so that high-level D can be used in scripting 
> environments (i.e. games, scriptable applications, and more.)
>
> Because it's based upon the D frontend, it can already compile 
> a lot of what we consider to be D - including foreach, the full 
> power of metaprogramming, *ranges*, and more. There's an awful 
> lot missing, as well (see the GitHub page for more 
> information), but it's quite promising so far.
>
> Of course, this is still a very early, very untested project - 
> so it's going to break on 99.9% of D code. I'd like to gauge 
> community reaction, but it's nowhere near ready to show off to 
> the wider programming community.

This is really cool.

> I'd also like to find out if anyone would be interested in me 
> submitting a DConf talk about how Moonshot works, and the 
> benefits of using D as a typed scripting language.
>
> Cheers!
>
> ------

Absolutely. I'd love to hear you talk about this.