What would you rewrite in D?

[Michael Stover]

An operating system written in D would be really interesting.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Andrej Mitrovic <
andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/6/10, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> > "sybrandy" <sybrandy at gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:i8g8oi$1hv6$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >> Just asking out of curiosity.  With all the great language features, I'm
> >> sure that many of you have thought about this.
> >>
> >> For me, I figured a good start would be your basic Unix/Linux/BSD
> >> utilities, like cat and grep.  I figure it may make the code easier to
> >> read and maintain as well as potentially improve the quality of the
> >> software.  Of course, most of these are so old they're probably quite
> bug
> >> free, but some probably could use a rewrite.  Some may even benefit for
> >> threading.
> >>
> >
> > Not that I would want to do it myself, but I'd like to see LLMV and
> > Scintilla moved to D.
> >
> > But really, just about anything in C/C++ that I might ever want to
> modify.
> > If I never have to touch another line of C/C++ it'll be too soon.
> >
> >
> >
>
> FYI, there's a DFL Scintilla component you can use in D2, which is
> downloaded separately from DFL. I've made a small update to it in the
> DFL forums although you would also need to add one more method in the
> scintilla class to get messages back from Scintilla itself (I'll  post
> an update to the DFL forums some time later for that).
>
> So basically the DFL component loads the scintilla DLL, and you can
> use message passing or optionally get a function pointer for direct
> access. It's really easy to use the editor from D in this way. In
> fact, you can port *Scite* source code to a D equivalent that uses the
> Scintilla DLL with ease. It only took me a minute to port the
> automatic indentation functionality from Scite to a fresh project that
> uses the DFLs Scintilla class.
>
> I wouldn't know if there are any bottlenecks in the Scintilla
> codebase, so I can't judge if it's worth porting to D. But it already
> works and you can use it from D already, so why go through all the
> trouble of rewriting it? :-)
>
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