Kotlin Meta and CT programming vs D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 06:04:33AM +0000, Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> I'm wondering if it would be worth the effort to try to get D to work
> with android studio since it can compile to all those. E.g., write the
> jetpack compose code in kotlin and hook up the business in with D
> somehow. If it wasn't too much trouble and worked well then this might
> give one the best of both worlds. JNI is a bit of a PIA when trying to
> call java from C because one has to use reflection for every aspect
> and it is very long winded. This probably could be simplified greatly
> with some D meta programming.

Check out Adam Ruppe's jni.d.  It just about eliminates JNI verbosity
and makes working with Java actually temptingly pleasant.

Only caveat is that Adam has left mainline D and is maintaining his own
fork, so jni.d may or may not work with upstream D in its present form.
(Pre-fork versions of jni.d would work with a compatible upstream D,
though.)


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