On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 13:23:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for January 2024
was held on Friday the 12th. There were two things of
particular note about this meeting.
[...]
I have some things to feedback on those points
### Item 6
I had done my DIP thinking mostly about intermediate values on
mixin template. That would make the value not included in mixin
template, but yes, static foreach also needs that, so a good
solution would be one that solves them both.
### Item 7
Redub is a tool that is basically a dub clone which improves what
dub is not doing very smartly: building. Recently I've done a
simple, yet major UX improvement: if dmd is not found, it tries
ldc.
But the apex of UX I've done is inside my engine, but I've shared
a plenty of times: build selector.
This tool is focused into:
All the items ending with a `*` are optionally done by the user.
- Downloads a D compiler if none is found on the user system
- Downloads and installs git [only on Windows that is automatic.
Other systems it shows an error requiring that to be done]
- [Windows] - Installs MSVC and vcruntime so D is able to build
it on systems that doesn't have this option (I needed that when
running with a VM).
- Download Android SDK/NDK [based on the user system], with the
supported LDC compiler and sets up the DFLAGS required to build
for Android.*
- Sets up a custom D runtime which supports building to WASM,
sets up the DFLAGS required to build it. May also get a supported
compiler.*
- Sets the DFLAGS required for being able to build for iOS.*
### Item 8
There was a project which is basically rdmd but faster out there,
done by Jonathan Marler.
- https://github.com/dragon-lang/rund
Sometime ago I thought about just pushing to d tools, but since
no one cared about, I simply abandoned the idea, but there it is:
