Translating Java into D

[Andre Pany]

On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 03:29:16 UTC, Heromyth wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 19:50:22 UTC, NonNull wrote:
>> Greetings, Java seems to be almost a subset of D in various 
>> ways.
> No, it's not exactly right. Java is more powerful than D as for 
> a language. Many things that Java can do can't be done by D. 
> For example, reflection, full meta info for a type  in runtime, 
> type deduction for a template, template member override.
>
> See:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4829631/unusual-generic-syntax-arrays-stringaslist
> https://www.baeldung.com/java-executor-service-tutorial
>
>> Has there been any work done to automatically translate Java 
>> source into D?
>
> We ported some projects in Java by hand.

With the compile time reflection capabilities of D you can build 
a runtime reflection system. Therefore I would say D has 
reflection.

The other points I do not have enough knowledge what Java 
provides.

Kind regards
Andre