Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[Walter Bright]

On 7/20/2019 8:27 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> What's missing is a tool to port C to D.  Atila didn't like the idea - 'thats 
> what a C compiler is for' but I think it would make a difference.  Rust had a 
> multimillion dollar DoD grant to support their tool that does this, but it's not 
> something out of reach of being a community project I think.  One could even use 
> their tool that outputs the libclang tool as CBOR.  It's just at the other end - 
> turning that into a D AST was beyond what I could manage in the time available.

Consider that we already have a C99 compiler at our disposal - DMC. 90% of 
making a C to D translator is already done.

It's also intertwined with a C++98 compiler (!)

It's even written in D (!!)


https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/tree/master/dm/src/dmc