On Saturday, 21 January 2017 at 18:38:22 UTC, Nestor wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> Is there a way to "compile" d code to C, similar to what nim does?
>
> That would be cool for greater portability.

Nim is able to, because Nim doesn't really compile. The Nim compiler just translates Nim code to C code and then compiles the C code.

It's much harder to do properly in D, because D doesn't use C as a backend, but compiles directly to native.

I'd guess the code generation you'd get from doing so with D would be absolute horrific to read, because you'll get rid of CTFE, templates, proper class structure, globals properly stored, since everything in D is TLS and C doesn't then you'll see weird constructs everywhere.

If you ask me, it's probably not something you want to do and there really isn't a reason to do it with D either. D has an almost 100% compatibility with C already.

On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 14:53:54 UTC, Bauss wrote:
> I'd guess the code generation you'd get from doing so with D would be absolute horrific to read, because you'll get rid of CTFE, templates, proper class structure, globals properly stored, since everything in D is TLS and C doesn't then you'll see weird constructs everywhere.

TLS is a nonissue. You can wrap the TLS declarations in macros.

On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 14:40:18 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 January 2017 at 19:30:31 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> On Saturday, 21 January 2017 at 18:38:22 UTC, Nestor wrote:
>>> Hi friends,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to "compile" d code to C, similar to what nim does?
>>>
>>> That would be cool for greater portability.
>>
>> No, and this is actually a terrible idea. See https://forum.dlang.org/post/n1vbos$11ov$1@digitalmars.com
>
> No valid arguments for it being a terrible idea in that thread.
>
> Being able to translate code to other languages is a very useful feature and makes a language much more interesting in production.

Unless you will be limited by tge limitations of C. Vala programming language has that issue even though they utilize GObject

On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 15:24:09 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Unless you will be limited by tge limitations of C. Vala programming language has that issue even though they utilize GObject

What limitations? C/C++ programs go around "limitations" by using compiler extensions and runtime libraries.

Vala is trying to keep code simple, like Go. Apples and oranges.