Calypso and the future of D

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 00:31:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:24:44PM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I think it's important that we enable Calypso
>> (https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso) and related tooling that 
>> interfaces D
>> with other languages, notably C++.
> [...]
>> But first, I want to get better acquainted with Calypso and 
>> raise
>> awareness of it with coworkers and the larger community. To my 
>> dismay,
>> the github homepage provides exactly zero "look and feel" use 
>> examples
>> beyond the mechanics of building Calypso itself.
>
> What exactly is Calypso and what is it supposed to do? The 
> README is
> unhelpful in this respect. All I can tell is that it's a fork 
> of ldc.
> But why? What does it afford beyond stock ldc? No explanation 
> is given.
>
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