D for TensorFlow-like library

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 15:56:52 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 15:10:13 UTC, krikru wrote:
>>
>> Hm, maybe making D bindings to an already existing library 
>> wouldn't be such a bad idea. But how do one create such 
>> bindings? Anyone knows of any good resource, like a tutorial, 
>> explaining how to do it?
>
> It looks like TensorFlow is C++ with a Python front-end. The 
> first thing I would try is using PyD to call the python 
> TensorFlow library. There's work being done on calling C++ 
> libraries from D, but I don't have any experience with it.
>
> I just read the Learning D book's section on C bindings. I 
> found it advanced, but a good read. There are some tools that 
> help transforming .h files to .d files (htod and dstep).

For anyone considering working on this, note that the C++ 
interface docs on dlang.org are very out-of-date at the moment.

Check out this pull request if you want docs that are actually 
useful:
     https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1154