My own IDE for D

[davidl]

在 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:01:13 +0800，BLS <windevguy at hotmail.de> 写道:

> Alexander Bothe wrote:
>> Hey guys, I created a Windows-IDE for D! I know, It's not the best but  
>> I'm still working on it!
>>  Now there is a fully auto completion supported!
>>  May someone of you could try it and say if it's working or not...
>>  http://www.alexanderbothe.com/?id=27
>>  Requirements are only Windows with Framework v2
>>
>
> Great !!!
> any plans to support automatic C# to D net converting ?
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Err, hacking Sharpdevelop C# -> VB.NET to produce D code is pretty easy.
I have one working converter. I successfully converted a simple proj of C#  
to D.(around 1M source? i'm not quite sure). However, the proj doesn't  
have very dense information. Just some simple protocal collecitons and  
java beans like stuff + networking.

The automatical part can help you add the import in D code(if a C# module  
uses another module implicitly because of the namespace, it would help you  
add this import in the output D file)

It converts C# property to D style functions.

It converts C# other minor differences to conform with the D syntax.

It converts C# generic to D template. It converts C# generic contraint to  
D2 contraint.

It converts C# event to DFL style event. (i'm not quite sure, if i get it  
correct, but after then, I find the project can be manually tweaked  
without the automatical tools' aid.)

It won't work if the C# code involes attributes which has substantial  
import reference later.
It won't work if the C# code which uses PInvoke. Maybe it can be also  
automatically translated to one .def file and corresponding binding. But  
the C# proj I wanted to port doesn't contain such code.

One possible improvement is automatically detect C# overload function hack  
for faking default param, depends on how much effort you want to put on it.

Even so, when I try to look at other C# code and take a chance of porting  
them, I find it's tougher than what you think really. But maybe one would  
figure it out later.

Java looks pretty much closer to D. But the early effort of porting java  
swt to d by some automatical tool is abandoned. Don't know the exact  
reason, but porting from one language to another really requires lot of  
effort.

Convert D1 code to D2 is also pretty tough!!

I hope the situation would change later.



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