Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:21:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

Link to "completed conversion" doesn't work.
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/make/make.c

Andrea

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:33:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:

>
> Link to "completed conversion" doesn't work.
> https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/make/make.c
>
> Andrea

Fixed. Thanks!

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:21:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

It seems that blog page is returned correctly by server but status is 404.

Andrea

On 6/11/18 10:21 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
> 
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
> 
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/ 
> 

"static if can replace cmany uses of #if"

cmany => many

-Steve

On 12/06/2018 2:57 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 6/11/18 10:21 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
>>
>> The blog:
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/ 
>>
> 
> "static if can replace cmany uses of #if"
> 
> cmany => many
> 
> -Steve

"(See the dcoumentation"
"make manual pagewhen"

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:52:13 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:21:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
>>
>> The blog:
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/
>
> It seems that blog page is returned correctly by server but status is 404.
>
> Andrea

I noticed that too

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 15:44:47 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 12/06/2018 2:57 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 6/11/18 10:21 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
>>>
>>> The blog:
>>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
>>>
>>> Reddit:
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/
>>>
>> 
>> "static if can replace cmany uses of #if"
>> 
>> cmany => many
>> 
>> -Steve
>
> "(See the dcoumentation"
> "make manual pagewhen"

"The #include files are replaced" <tt> font includes too many words.

Nice read, I see translating to D is trending.

On 6/11/2018 7:21 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
> 
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
> 
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/ 
> 

It's on the second page of Hacker News too.

https://news.ycombinator.com

Direct link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284350\