C to D

[Imperatorn]

On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at 23:09:11 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 10/18/2023 11:25 AM, bachmeier wrote:
>> On the other hand, there's no reason to manually convert C to 
>> D.
>
> I manually converted the D backend from C to D. It didn't take 
> long - mostly because:
>
> 1. I'd already removed my oh-so-brilliant C preprocessor 
> metaprogramming
>
> 2. A bit of global search/replace handles quite a lot
>
> Of course, the result still looks and acts like C code.

I just want to say. I'm quite impressed by how easy it was to 
port C to D manually.

For example a hashmap, I found, took 15 minutes. And another 
library took about 30 minutes.

The only friction was strings, but it wasn't a show stopper.

Also btw, I'm very curious, about if ImportC could handle 
dependencies?

If all files are present, could it compile those as well? Sorry 
for my ignorance