Porting C# code

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:23:47 -0500, Brien <reply at tolist.com> wrote:

> Hi BCS,
>
> I'd really appreciate it.  I'm looking to port over a network server  
> application so the GUI stuff shouldn't be a problem.  I've also kept my  
> source code on C# 1.0 so hopefully that should make it easier.
>
> Did you write your own parser or base it on ANTLR or some other  
> parsing/compiling library?
>
> I wonder if it is possible to fully automate the conversion process- if  
> you limit yourself to a certain subset of C# and maybe do some tricks to  
> decorate the C# source code with any additional D keywords you would  
> need, e.g. in C#
>
> public class Foo {
>     public /* @shared */ int bar;
> }
>
> which could get translated as a shared variable.
>
> I might want to continue to primarily write code in C# but create an  
> optimized port to D where I would be able to use native techniques on  
> critical areas of the code.

Note there is a D compiler for .NET, which may allow you to avoid porting  
parts of it.  I've never used it, but it has been announced here somewhere.

-Steve