C++ -> D converter mentioned in AMA

[simendsjo]

On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 11:31:51 UTC, Tourist wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 11:29:38 UTC, Szymon Gatner 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 11:23:25 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 11:08:29 UTC, Szymon Gatner 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Thanks, I actually have VisualD installed but didn't know 
>>>> about that functionality tho looking at the docs it is 
>>>> pretty limited especially when it comes to templates :(
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to hear about Daniel's tool. Maybe some day...
>>>
>>> Expecting such tool to "just work" is very unrealistic. C++ 
>>> is very complex language and some behavior just can't be 
>>> mapped to D directly. For example, one issue with current DMD 
>>> source translation is that in C++ you can split class 
>>> implementation among different translation units. Not in D.
>>>
>>> Of course, libclang helps a lot with such tools (you don't 
>>> need to write full C++ front-end on your own anymore!) but 
>>> the complexity of translation is very high and you need to 
>>> manually recheck it anyway so this does not seem like a 
>>> feasible _generic_ tool, only something that can be adopted 
>>> for specific projects.
>>
>> I fully realize that and actually I was really surprised that 
>> such a tool is in production considering amount of code in 
>> DMD. OTOH if it can work for DMD then in theory it should be 
>> possible to (to some degree) reuse it on other codebase *if* 
>> it conforms to certain coding rules/standard right?
>
> An official reply from Daniel ;)
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980#issuecomment-19539800

It's been self-hosting for two months..?
Perhaps DMD 2.065 will be written in D! :)