D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
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Re: D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
#2Daniel Murphy is the man behind getting the sources converted from C++ to D. He wrote a program called "magicport" to do the bulk of it, with some manual tweaking. The back end is still in C++, showing that you can mix D and C++ code :-)
Re: D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
#3I'm wondering, is there an advantage of using D over Rust?
Re: D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
#4Daniel Murphy is the man behind getting the sources converted from C++ to D. He wrote a program called "magicport" to do the bulk of it, with some manual tweaking. The back end is still in C++, showing that you can mix D and C++ code :-)
How is the compiler bootstrapped now (i.e. compiled from source without a working D compiler)? Via the gcc D implementation?
Re: D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
#5I'm wondering, is there an advantage of using D over Rust?
I guess D feels more like a better C++ and Rust like a better C, but I may be under the wrong impression.
Re: D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
#6I'm wondering, is there an advantage of using D over Rust?
Some things D has that Rust doesn't: compiler-checked function purity annotations, higher-kinded types, variadic functions/generics, types parameterised by numbers, compile-time function evaluation, mixins, a fast compiler (the reference DMD compiler), powerful and convenient compile-time reflection (I think technically Rust can do anything D can at compile time, but it requires writing a syntax extension to do so). For better or worse, D also has classical OO inheritance, which Rust lacks.
Re: D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
#7I'm wondering, is there an advantage of using D over Rust?
Some things D has that Rust doesn't: compiler-checked function purity annotations, higher-kinded types, variadic functions/generics, types parameterised by numbers, compile-time function evaluation, mixins, a fast compiler (the reference DMD compiler), powerful and convenient compile-time reflection (I think technically Rust can do anything D can at compile time, but it requires writing a syntax extension to do so).…
I would say this is fairly accurate, yeah. We got rid of purity in Rust, we didn't find it useful. HKT, variadic generics, and type-level integers are all things we want to do in the future.
Re: D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
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#9Re: D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
#10Daniel Murphy is the man behind getting the sources converted from C++ to D. He wrote a program called "magicport" to do the bulk of it, with some manual tweaking. The back end is still in C++, showing that you can mix D and C++ code :-)
How is the compiler bootstrapped now (i.e. compiled from source without a working D compiler)? Via the gcc D implementation?
If my information is still actual, the last C++ based implementations will be used for the time being for such purposes.