On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:47:10 UTC, Jordi Gutiérrez
Hermoso wrote:
I'm specifically thinking of the GNU Octave codebase:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/@
It's a fairly old and complicated C++ codebase. I would like to
see if I could slowly introduce some D in it, anywhere.
Now, as I understand it, I would need to begin with making
`main` a D function, because D needs to initialise the runtime.
Is this correct?
Another possibility might be in dlopen'able functions.
Currently Octave uses so-called oct functions, which are
nothing more than C++ object code that is dynamically loaded by
the interpreter at runtime. They are compiled to the Octave C++
API, but we also have a Matlab-compatible C API that perhaps
could be more amenable for D-ification.
What are your ideas?
I've looked into this a bit, but haven't had time to do anything
with it.
My opinion is that the starting point is to add functionality
using Oct-Files. The reason is that it is the simplest way to do
so in a way that you can share your work with others. That allows
you to call into the Octave API and reuse that code. Given the
recent work on C++ interoperability, I think this strategy is the
clear winner.
