D Language Foundation July 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Sunday, 28 August 2022 at 11:04:45 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 8/28/22 6:37 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
>> SARC has marked a major milestone in that their 500KLOC 
>> Extended Pascal codebase has been completely transcompiled to D
>
> This is awesome! I remember that talk, and it was very 
> interesting.
>
> Congratulations!
>
> -Steve

Thank you!

The process takes several times longer than anticipated, but we 
are not giving up :-)

Although it is an important milestone, it doesn’t mean we can now 
all code in D. Almost all commits still happen in Pascal. I have 
started transpiling every commit separately, to create a commit 
history in D that overlaps the Pascal history for some period.

Next week we plan on using the D versions of our software 
internally, to expose a larger surface area to testing and 
scrutiny. This is arguably a bigger milestone.

What we all look forward to the most is the last milestone 
though, where we’ll freeze the Pascal repository and switch from 
programming in Pascal to programming in D overnight.

— Bastiaan.