C++ to D explainer

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On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 03:34:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> 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/

It would also be very effective to have a modest program that is 
demonstrated under different memory management schemes in D as 
the concern about the GC seems to be one of the biggest issues to 
address. Show people what a reference counted or manual or lazy, 
non-allocate etc solution looks like on the same program.