Newbie questions. Which Compiler to start with? Real Time behaviour? Has anyone converted CImg yet?

[bearophile]

John Carter:

> "How easy is it to convert both C++ programs and C++ 
> programmers to D?"

Porting C code to D is not hard, it's mostly mechanical work, you 
just have to keep an eye on few things (like passing fixed-sized 
arrays to functions by reference, global floating point data not 
initialized to zero, etc).

I think that for a C++ programmer it's not too much hard to learn 
D. But converting C++ code to D could be very hard (and a slow 
work) if the code uses lot of small things that are specific of 
C++ and missing or different in D. If the C++ code is more plain, 
then it's probably not hard, despite the missing multiple 
inheritance and struct inheritance.

Converting CImg to D seems a multi-years work.

Bye,
bearophile