Google Summer of Code 2016

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On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 13:53:30 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
wrote:
> Would there be any interest in a project to automate binding 
> generation from C files (or perhaps even a full conversion 
> tool)?
>  This could be done either as a new project, or possibly 
> building on dstep - if there is meaningful work that can still 
> be done to improve that project.  Alternately, the student 
> suggested using  pycparser (https://github.com/eliben/pycparse) 
> as the basis for such a tool?

I think it is very important to focus on polishing dstep instead 
of creating more and more imperfect tools. In the end any 
approach which doesn't use existing mature C compiler frontend is 
doomed to make binding mistakes.

Random suggestions for improving dstep:
- implement support for C++ clang API using new shiny dmd 
features (it tends to have more features than C one)
- implement automatic generation of idiomatic D code for raw 
bindings (i.e. stripping redundant namespace prefixes)
- remove/minimize dependencies apart from Phobos/libclang (will 
make much easier including it into standard tools)