C++ -> D converter mentioned in AMA

[Szymon Gatner]

On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 10:52:42 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 10:42:32 UTC, Szymon Gatner 
> wrote:
>> Andrei's AMA has interesting answer:
>>
>> "One of the main D(md) contributors, Daniel Murphy is working 
>> on automatic conversion tool that eventually will convert 
>> DMD's C++ codebase to D."
>>
>> Is this tool already available? Are there any guidelines about 
>> how to code in C++ to ease the conversion preocess (or even 
>> make it possible). I would be VERY interested in such a tool 
>> when the time comes so in the mean time I could slowly "fix" 
>> existing C++ codebase for future conversion.
>
> I think Daniel Murphys tool is aimed directly at the DMD 
> codebase. It probably has plenty of hacks to solve the problem. 
> There are plenty of pull-requests to ease the conversion, so I 
> don't think this is a tool that works for other projects out of 
> the box.
> The code can be found here: https://github.com/yebblies/dmd
>
> VisualD includes a generic tool to automatically convert C++ to 
> D. I haven't tried it myself, but you can find some information 
> here: 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion

Thanks, I actually have VisualD installed but didn't know about 
that functionality tho looking at the docs it is pretty limited 
especially when it comes to templates :(

Sorry to hear about Daniel's tool. Maybe some day...