Is it feasible to slowly rewrite a C++ codebase in D?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 at 20:28:00 UTC, Seb wrote:

>
> Maybe looking at the recent DMD Backend to D conversion PRs 
> (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22D+Conversion%22+) helps?
> Here -betterC is used.

Octave is so far from -betterC, though. It's very C++-heavy, with 
C++11 features being used since the last couple of years. It's an 
old codebase that started circa 1992. Just getting it into 
-betterC territory seems like a very daunting task.