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'm a little confused...you mean like embedr [1, 2] and pyd [3],
but for Octave and Matlab? The idea would that you could write
functions in D and call them in Matlab/Octave, and vice-versa. I
suppose that. I'm not sure adding D to the GNU Octave code base
is necessarily the biggest value add...
There was an old forum post years ago on the subject [4], but the
link to the repository is dead.
[1] https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/embedr
[2] https://github.com/bdilday/embedr
[3] https://code.dlang.org/packages/pyd
[4]
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/op.vhjavyoc3nc...@enigma.fem.tu-ilmenau.de
