• Joakim (17/17) Oct 21 2015 Someone needs to write up a good translation of a C++ project to
• Cauterite (4/7) Oct 21 2015 This seems to be a good start:
• ixid (6/23) Oct 22 2015 It would also be very effective to have a modest program that is
• Jesse Phillips (5/12) Oct 22 2015 Using the DMD translation for this may not be the best code base.
• tsbockman (11/23) Oct 22 2015 Also, DDMD is nowhere close to being idiomatic D yet; it's got

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

Someone needs to write up a good translation of a C++ project to 
D, showing how the code is better in D and particularly 
demonstrating D idioms instead.  The ongoing DDMD project, 
translating the dmd frontend from C++ to D, may be a good project 
for this, or someone might just want to translate some other 
small to mid-size C++ project instead.  A blog post explaining 
what they did would be very worthwhile.

People often talk about how D is its own thing on this forum and 
in reddit comments, how it's not just C++ with a couple nice 
features and some slightly different syntax, as many C++ people 
seem to think.  Well, those new D idioms need to be shown 
explicitly and translating a C++ project to specifically contrast 
the two languages would be a good way to do it.

I'll be translating Android C++ samples like these to D soon, so 
that people have some D sample code to try out on Android, but 
they're too small to use many D idioms:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/development/+/master/ndk/platforms/android-18/samples/

Cauterite <cauterite gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 03:34:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 Someone needs to write up a good translation of a C++ project 
 to D, showing how the code is better in D and particularly 
 demonstrating D idioms instead.

This seems to be a good start:
http://dlang.org/cpptod.html
Still only scratches the surface though.

ixid <adamsibson hotmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 03:34:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 Someone needs to write up a good translation of a C++ project 
 to D, showing how the code is better in D and particularly 
 demonstrating D idioms instead.  The ongoing DDMD project, 
 translating the dmd frontend from C++ to D, may be a good 
 project for this, or someone might just want to translate some 
 other small to mid-size C++ project instead.  A blog post 
 explaining what they did would be very worthwhile.

 People often talk about how D is its own thing on this forum 
 and in reddit comments, how it's not just C++ with a couple 
 nice features and some slightly different syntax, as many C++ 
 people seem to think.  Well, those new D idioms need to be 
 shown explicitly and translating a C++ project to specifically 
 contrast the two languages would be a good way to do it.

 I'll be translating Android C++ samples like these to D soon, 
 so that people have some D sample code to try out on Android, 
 but they're too small to use many D idioms:

 https://android.googlesource.com/platform/development/+/master/ndk/platforms/android-18/samples/

It would also be very effective to have a modest program that is 
demonstrated under different memory management schemes in D as 
the concern about the GC seems to be one of the biggest issues to 
address. Show people what a reference counted or manual or lazy, 
non-allocate etc solution looks like on the same program.

Jesse Phillips <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 03:34:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 Someone needs to write up a good translation of a C++ project 
 to D, showing how the code is better in D and particularly 
 demonstrating D idioms instead.  The ongoing DDMD project, 
 translating the dmd frontend from C++ to D, may be a good 
 project for this, or someone might just want to translate some 
 other small to mid-size C++ project instead.  A blog post 
 explaining what they did would be very worthwhile.

Using the DMD translation for this may not be the best code base. 
It has been said that Walter writes his C++ in a D style. If 
nothing else, it is not what people "into" C++ would consider C++ 
style.

tsbockman <thomas.bockman gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 22:29:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
wrote:
 On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 03:34:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 Someone needs to write up a good translation of a C++ project 
 to D, showing how the code is better in D and particularly 
 demonstrating D idioms instead.  The ongoing DDMD project, 
 translating the dmd frontend from C++ to D, may be a good 
 project for this, or someone might just want to translate some 
 other small to mid-size C++ project instead.  A blog post 
 explaining what they did would be very worthwhile.

 Using the DMD translation for this may not be the best code 
 base. It has been said that Walter writes his C++ in a D style. 
 If nothing else, it is not what people "into" C++ would 
 consider C++ style.

Also, DDMD is nowhere close to being idiomatic D yet; it's got 
raw pointers all over the place, often uses `int` rather than 
`bool`, all the functions are marked `extern (C++)`, use of 
Phobos is forbidden, etc.

The first step was just to get it working. Refactoring the code 
base into natural, streamlined D code will be a long process - 
especially since fixing bugs, adding new features, and avoiding 
regressions are all higher priorities for almost everyone working 
on it.