any tool to at least partially convert C++ to D (htod for source

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Mar 10 06:29:52 PST 2010


On 3/9/10 22:35, Justin Johansson wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>
>> Justin Johansson wrote:
>>> Having spent six months developing a significant app in D only to find impediments to
>>> practical completion of the project and ultimate deployment,
>>
>> Which ones did you find to be blocking?
>
> (My time zone is way different to yours and gotta dash to work soon so will have to be brief).
>
> (Comments in relation to D1)
>
> #4 The performance of the IDE that I was using (Descent under Eclipse) did not scale
> very well with large source files.  Tried a few other development tools but found Descent
> to be overall the best but, like I say, not adequate at scaling in a large project.
> Sure this is not a D language problem per se but a practical issue that is still likely to
> put some users off.

I also have this problem with some of my D files. But on the other hand 
I've never seen a tool/IDE for C++ that can do to what descent does. 
I.e. showing both syntax and semantic errors as you type.

> Cheers,
>
> Justin Johansson
>




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