Hello.

I'm looking for someone who has plenty of experience in the D programming language.

I have some task, which I hope will be added to Rosetta Code.
This task is based on pqmarkup, and is called pqmarkup-lite.

The specialty of this task is formatting characters of pqmarkup {paired quotation marks themselves, and Н, Р, С, Т, О, which allow both Latin and Cyrillic writing} go beyond ASCII. This significantly complicates working with input UTF-8 string directly (especially in languages [like C++] which have no built-in UTF-8 support).

I've already translated the original implementation in Python of this task into C++ (there are two implementations: using u16string and using UTF-8 string).
Also there is a Nim translation by Luc Secouard.

And now I'm looking for people who can translate this task into other languages (D, Rust, Swift, etc.), and then I will compare all implementations by code readability and by performance.

So, can someone provide the most idiomatic D solution to this task?
I can pay for that (not very much though).

On Monday, 7 June 2021 at 23:40:52 UTC, Alexander Tretyak wrote:

This isn't quite what you're asking for, so no need to pay:
https://github.com/jrfondren/pqmarkup-lite/tree/master/d

This adds tests.d which is written in the style of tests.py, and
pqmarkup_lite.d which is written in the style (with more differences
required) of pqmarkup_lite1.nim. So this is more of a demonstration of
D's range than of particularly idiomatic D.

Due to some mistakes that I made while rewriting the Nim, this version
is still failing seven(+2) of the tests. You can run it through the
tests with one of

./tests.d

or

dmd -i -run tests.d pqmarkup_lite.d

I welcome anyone else taking the D and improving on it.