Why can't we transpile C++ to D?

[Tejas]

On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 16:50:41 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 15:09:02 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>> Sorry, I'm rather ignorant when it comes to this, but why 
>> can't we use 
>> [pegged](https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged) to 
>> transpile C++ code to D? Then we won't need a nogc compatible 
>> std library and so many other things could get easier, like 
>> getting legacy code to use Dlang. It might not be worth it for 
>> C+17 and beyond, but older codebases could benefit 
>> significantly, right?
>
> I leave this here, it does converts C++ to D to some extent
>
> https://github.com/Superbelko/ohmygento
Yes I saw the announcement earlier.

I was hoping for something native, rather than bindings.

As you said youself, it's not exactly stable.


Plus I don't want a hamster's death on my conscience. :(

Please don't take this as me belittling your work, it is better 
than having nothing.

But how scalable will this be? We have to get real D code to 
enrich our ambiguously-defined-small ecosystem.