I would not hold my breath if I were you for 3 reasons

1) this idea will go through only if my direct bridge via shared memory between Pharo and Unreal fails are is proven very limited, which I highly doubt.

2) even if I proceed with it, I will certainly be specialised for Unreal and have little interest in covering C++, huge and ugly syntax. So it will probably be just a few steps further than CCodeGenerator than a full implementation.��

3) I am interested in producing readable C++ code, which makes this project even harder

long term though I could proceed with this anyway if I deem it useful under specific scenarios.��

To really make this tempting for C++ coders would need a full implementation.��

But in any case as I said, its very low priority for me, just a worse case scenario that I would try to avoid as much as I can.��

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:03 PM Hern��n Morales Durand <hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dimitris,

That would be certainly nice. C++ is hard, but if one start with a basic instantiation template it could be easier to move forward to more complex tasks like mapping data structures to STL, their containers and iterators. And I think it would attract C++ developers to Smalltalk.
Cheers,

Hern��n

2016-10-18 4:54 GMT-03:00 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com>:
There is the CCodeGenerator , which is basically Slang, Smalltalk that is turned into basic C. I would like to expand it to generate C++ at some point for converting pharo code to C++ code that I will be able to add to Unreal. Though its a very low priority project for me.

http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PavelKrivanek/CCodeGenerator

Personally I am against generalized solutions because they tend to be bad for specialized cases , on the other hand I welcome any code that I can use as inspiration for my own code generator.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:25 AM Hern��n Morales Durand <hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,

I am writing a code generator, doing a few iterations right now.
I want your opinion, which most useful thing would you like to be generated automatically? It could be a pattern, an idiom, another language...

For example my own wish (roadmap) list:

- A "settings framework" settings class generator.
- A state machine generator (based in the excellent paper of Trevor P. Hopkins)
- A Spec UI generator.

Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,

Hern��n