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reply Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:
Should add D here

https://www.codeconvert.ai/
Oct 17 2023
parent reply monkyyy <crazymonkyyy gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at 05:05:22 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 Should add D here

 https://www.codeconvert.ai/


ai start-ups are as dubious as the peak dotcom website without a 
business plan
Oct 17 2023
parent reply matheus <matheus gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at 06:48:59 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

 On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at 05:05:22 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 Should add D here

 https://www.codeconvert.ai/


 ai start-ups are as dubious as the peak dotcom website without 
 a business plan


I think their business plan is very simple... cashing over a 
service that translates code. =]

Well, we never know how this will end-up... but everyone is fixed 
with this 'AI' thing nowadays, but anyway... you know sending 
your code to a server which you don't know how it will handle 
your data/code is something that I wouldn't do it for a 
proprietary code.

Finally from their FAQ: "...Thus, we cannot say that the 
conversions will always be exactly correct."

I wonder if they compile the translated code before returning the 
answer, or just returns whatever was converted without any 
checking.

Matheus.
Oct 18 2023
parent reply mw <mw g.c> writes:
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at 13:55:51 UTC, matheus wrote:

 I wonder if they compile the translated code before returning 
 the answer, or just returns whatever was converted without any 
 checking.


Tried already, it's ChatGPT type of thing, (I suspect they just 
call ChatGPT API), the generated code is the same quality as 
ChatGPT conversion output (you can ask ChatGPT do that too, and 
without limit), neither syntactic nor semantic error are checked. 
But it's an convenience than manually convert everything.
Oct 18 2023
parent reply bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at 14:53:31 UTC, mw wrote:


 But it's an convenience than manually convert everything.


On the other hand, there's no reason to manually convert C to D. 
The only way I'd see something like this to be truly useful is if 
it understood how to write good code. That could be the fastest 
code, the easiest to extend, the best API, etc., but AI is not 
there yet.
Oct 18 2023
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 10/18/2023 11:25 AM, bachmeier wrote:

 On the other hand, there's no reason to manually convert C to D.


I manually converted the D backend from C to D. It didn't take long - mostly 
because:

1. I'd already removed my oh-so-brilliant C preprocessor metaprogramming

2. A bit of global search/replace handles quite a lot

Of course, the result still looks and acts like C code.
Oct 18 2023
next sibling parent Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at 23:09:11 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:

 On 10/18/2023 11:25 AM, bachmeier wrote:

 On the other hand, there's no reason to manually convert C to 
 D.


 I manually converted the D backend from C to D. It didn't take 
 long - mostly because:

 1. I'd already removed my oh-so-brilliant C preprocessor 
 metaprogramming

 2. A bit of global search/replace handles quite a lot

 Of course, the result still looks and acts like C code.


I just want to say. I'm quite impressed by how easy it was to 
port C to D manually.

For example a hashmap, I found, took 15 minutes. And another 
library took about 30 minutes.

The only friction was strings, but it wasn't a show stopper.

Also btw, I'm very curious, about if ImportC could handle 
dependencies?

If all files are present, could it compile those as well? Sorry 
for my ignorance
Oct 20 2023
prev sibling parent bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at 23:09:11 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:

 On 10/18/2023 11:25 AM, bachmeier wrote:

 On the other hand, there's no reason to manually convert C to 
 D.


 I manually converted the D backend from C to D. It didn't take 
 long - mostly because:

 1. I'd already removed my oh-so-brilliant C preprocessor 
 metaprogramming

 2. A bit of global search/replace handles quite a lot

 Of course, the result still looks and acts like C code.


Oh I can do better than that. I can drop foo.c in the project 
directory and call all of those functions without doing anything 
else. Code conversion is usually pointless, because the functions 
in the .c file work, they're documented, the edge cases have been 
handled, it's all been tested, and I can update by dropping an 
updated foo.c in the project directory. If I have the urge to 
convert, I'm going to do a full rewrite of the code so it's easy 
to read and easy to work with, like D code is supposed to be.
Oct 20 2023