My own IDE for D

[Alexander Bothe]

davidl Wrote:

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


Your Idea isn't so bad, but why should a programmer translate his complete project into another language? I mean, when I've chosen Java, then I want to make Java:) and NOT D or C#...