C++ to D explainer

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

Someone needs to write up a good translation of a C++ project to 
D, showing how the code is better in D and particularly 
demonstrating D idioms instead.  The ongoing DDMD project, 
translating the dmd frontend from C++ to D, may be a good project 
for this, or someone might just want to translate some other 
small to mid-size C++ project instead.  A blog post explaining 
what they did would be very worthwhile.

People often talk about how D is its own thing on this forum and 
in reddit comments, how it's not just C++ with a couple nice 
features and some slightly different syntax, as many C++ people 
seem to think.  Well, those new D idioms need to be shown 
explicitly and translating a C++ project to specifically contrast 
the two languages would be a good way to do it.

I'll be translating Android C++ samples like these to D soon, so 
that people have some D sample code to try out on Android, but 
they're too small to use many D idioms:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/development/+/master/ndk/platforms/android-18/samples/