C++ -> D converter mentioned in AMA

[simendsjo]

On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 10:42:32 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> Andrei's AMA has interesting answer:
>
> "One of the main D(md) contributors, Daniel Murphy is working 
> on automatic conversion tool that eventually will convert DMD's 
> C++ codebase to D."
>
> Is this tool already available? Are there any guidelines about 
> how to code in C++ to ease the conversion preocess (or even 
> make it possible). I would be VERY interested in such a tool 
> when the time comes so in the mean time I could slowly "fix" 
> existing C++ codebase for future conversion.

I think Daniel Murphys tool is aimed directly at the DMD 
codebase. It probably has plenty of hacks to solve the problem. 
There are plenty of pull-requests to ease the conversion, so I 
don't think this is a tool that works for other projects out of 
the box.
The code can be found here: https://github.com/yebblies/dmd

VisualD includes a generic tool to automatically convert C++ to 
D. I haven't tried it myself, but you can find some information 
here: 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion