Adding D code to a C++ codebase

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

Say I have a C++14 codebase, for arguments sake let's call it Me TV.
Say I fancy rewriting it in D, but incrementally not as a "big bang".
Actually I may start by adding new features in D code rather than C++.
In any event it is a mixed C++/D code with a C++ main.

The build is currently CMake (because of CLion) and Meson (because it's
a Gtk+3 application).

Can anyone point me at anyone successfully doing mixed C++/D codebases
with those build systems?

That I will try this conversion is not yet certain. Why? Tooling. C++
is very well supported by tools and IDEs, D is not.

CLion, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse/CDT, Xcode, and Visual Studio seem to be
the IDEs of the moment. There is effort to get D support in IntelliJ
IDEA, but CLion is where the C++ folk are. Eclipse/CDT appears to have
lost all activity on the D support. I'm on Linux so Visual Studio is
not an possibility.

(Emacs, Vim, etc. really do not cut it for me any more, Since using
PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA and CLion for Python, Kotlin, Groovy, Java, C++
– it is left as an exercise for the reader to match language to IDE – I
cannot imagine not using a good IDE for programming.) 

I guess I am leading up to: I wonder how many people look at D and walk
away because the tooling is not up to that of C++ and Python?

-- 
Russel.
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