• tim (5/5) Mar 15 2018 what prevents LDC from accepting a new import statement to
• kinke (3/8) Mar 15 2018 See https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso for an LDC fork aiming at
• tim (6/16) Mar 15 2018 sorry i forgot to mention calypso, i was aware of it. but from
• kinke (4/21) Mar 15 2018 I'd guess way too complex to be considered low-hanging fruit, and
• Joakim (4/21) Mar 15 2018 There's talk that one of the companies using D is working on
• Kagamin (2/5) Mar 20 2018 Maybe it already handles C headers just fine?
• Jacob Carlborg (5/8) Mar 16 2018 Swift is doing something similar by somehow embedded the Clang

tim <tim srntwz.com> writes:

what prevents LDC from accepting a new import statement to 
directly import C headers without the need to convert them to D 
first?

given the progress in -betterC it greatly simplify gradual D 
rewrites of C software into D.

kinke <kinke libero.it> writes:

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 13:49:28 UTC, tim wrote:
 what prevents LDC from accepting a new import statement to 
 directly import C headers without the need to convert them to D 
 first?

 given the progress in -betterC it greatly simplify gradual D 
 rewrites of C software into D.

See https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso for an LDC fork aiming at 
providing this functionality (not just C headers, C++ ones to).

tim <tim srtnwz.com> writes:

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 14:39:16 UTC, kinke wrote:
 On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 13:49:28 UTC, tim wrote:
 what prevents LDC from accepting a new import statement to 
 directly import C headers without the need to convert them to 
 D first?

 given the progress in -betterC it greatly simplify gradual D 
 rewrites of C software into D.

 See https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso for an LDC fork aiming 
 at providing this functionality (not just C headers, C++ ones 
 to).

sorry i forgot to mention calypso, i was aware of it. but from 
what i understand it aims to provide c++ interop which is 
probably much harder.
the question was aiming at the question how complex C only 
support is and if its not a low hanging fruit.

kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 21:27:17 UTC, tim wrote:
 On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 14:39:16 UTC, kinke wrote:
 On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 13:49:28 UTC, tim wrote:
 what prevents LDC from accepting a new import statement to 
 directly import C headers without the need to convert them to 
 D first?

 given the progress in -betterC it greatly simplify gradual D 
 rewrites of C software into D.

 See https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso for an LDC fork aiming 
 at providing this functionality (not just C headers, C++ ones 
 to).

 sorry i forgot to mention calypso, i was aware of it. but from 
 what i understand it aims to provide c++ interop which is 
 probably much harder.
 the question was aiming at the question how complex C only 
 support is and if its not a low hanging fruit.

I'd guess way too complex to be considered low-hanging fruit, and 
that interest in such a direction would IMO be better invested in 
Calypso.

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 21:27:17 UTC, tim wrote:
 On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 14:39:16 UTC, kinke wrote:
 On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 13:49:28 UTC, tim wrote:
 what prevents LDC from accepting a new import statement to 
 directly import C headers without the need to convert them to 
 D first?

 given the progress in -betterC it greatly simplify gradual D 
 rewrites of C software into D.

 See https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso for an LDC fork aiming 
 at providing this functionality (not just C headers, C++ ones 
 to).

 sorry i forgot to mention calypso, i was aware of it. but from 
 what i understand it aims to provide c++ interop which is 
 probably much harder.
 the question was aiming at the question how complex C only 
 support is and if its not a low hanging fruit.

There's talk that one of the companies using D is working on 
this, and may present it at DConf, in six weeks:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/uhoezlyijoibwdaismah forum.dlang.org

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 21:27:17 UTC, tim wrote:
 sorry i forgot to mention calypso, i was aware of it. but from 
 what i understand it aims to provide c++ interop which is 
 probably much harder.

Maybe it already handles C headers just fine?

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 14:39:16 UTC, kinke wrote:

 See https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso for an LDC fork aiming 
 at providing this functionality (not just C headers, C++ ones 
 to).

Swift is doing something similar by somehow embedded the Clang 
compiler.

--
/Jacob Carlborg