Porting C# code

[Lutger]

On 01/07/2010 11:59 PM, Lutger wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 10:50 PM, Brien wrote:
>> Don Wrote:
>>
>>>> Ok, that's good to know. I assumed because D billed itself as a
>>>> "systems" programming language that performance would be paramount.
>>>
>>> He's talking about his converter program, not about D!
>>
>> Oops, sorry about the misinterpretation.
>>
>>>> I'm sure I'm the millionth person to ask this, but- is there a
>>>> language out there that is bare metal like C/C++ with the friendlier
>>>> syntax and developer productivity of Java/C#?
>>>
>>> D is trying to be exactly that. We don't have the infrastructure yet,
>>> though. So the productivity gains are a bit theoretical at present...
>>
>> Cool.
>>
>> That being the case, I'm not sure I can give up my addiction to
>> Jetbrains Resharper. Do you think a fully automated translation from
>> C#->D is possible so that I can continue to primary develop using C#
>> tools? I'm not too worried about library support- I can reimplement
>> whatever I need, just the language itself.
>>
>> Also, is the threading support and memory model of D1.0 solid and
>> performant? I'm a little unclear about how synchronization is
>> achieved. I see the synchronized keyword and I've seen some references
>> to using mutexes, but I don't really have a clear picture.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
> Wouldn't it be more efficient for you and the code to implement the
> performance critical parts as a library in D and use that in C#? D can
> easily do extern(C) so it's not much work, much less probably than
> massaging an automated port.
>
> If you go with D1 take a look at the ldc compiler and the tango
> documentation for class libraries (these should contain a fair bit of
> information):
>
> www.dsource.org/projects/tango
> www.dsource.org/projects/ldc

There's also this tool for porting C#, but I don't know anything about 
it. Seems like it hasn't been updated for 2 years:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/nanu