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Roman D. Boiko rb at d-coding.com
Wed May 23 14:41:34 PDT 2012


On Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 17:12:15 UTC, Andrew Wiley wrote:
> I agree with Roman that automated translation to a VM language 
> would
> probably be a difficult thing to attempt, although I think it 
> could be
> doable. I don't think the effort/benefit ration is low enough. 
> It's not
> often that someone needs a mechanical translation of a D 
> library to another
> language.

It is possible to translate D to LLVM IR :) Proven by LDC. 
Almost...

But I don't think D to Java or .NET would map well. And it would 
be very difficult to write such a mapping, almost impossible, IMO.


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