Compile to C?

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On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 14:40:18 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 January 2017 at 19:30:31 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 21 January 2017 at 18:38:22 UTC, Nestor wrote:
>>> Hi friends,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to "compile" d code to C, similar to what nim 
>>> does?
>>>
>>> That would be cool for greater portability.
>>
>> No, and this is actually a terrible idea. See 
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/n1vbos$11ov$1@digitalmars.com
>
> No valid arguments for it being a terrible idea in that thread.
>
> Being able to translate code to other languages is a very 
> useful feature and makes a language much more interesting in 
> production.

Unless you will be limited by tge limitations of C. Vala 
programming language has that issue even though they utilize 
GObject