termhare/cpp2ts.js

C++ to TypeScript Converter (to a Rough Approximation™)

C++ to TypeScript (rough approximation)

This is a Node.js library for converting C++ code to TypeScript, to a rough approximation. It is not meant to be a runnable port of a C++ library to TypeScript, that isn't really straightforward or necessarily possible. Instead, imagine you are trying to port a C++ library to TypeScript. You need to copy the details of a function implementation, changing syntax here and there from C++ to TypeScript. But that is really error prone, you can make lots of mistakes. This library translates the common stuff from C++ to TypeScript, so you can then fine-tune it by hand, cutting out the tedious work of changing the high-level syntax.

So this library is like an aid to your process of porting code from C++ to TypeScript, not a perfect translator. It just saves you some time and avoids some tediousness.

Development

This is not yet a fully complete project. You can test it out on a snippet of C++, and if you get an error, it might look like this:

Error: Unhandled node type 'import_from_statement' in context 'module'

If so, just go and add an import_from_statement handler (in the switch statement) in the module handler. It's pretty basic, check out the source code!