On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 08:23:16 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 20:49:48 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
It would be nice to have a page to link to when questions come
up on Reddit about compatibility with C++.
We have this:
http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html
From what I understand, it's not complete. For example it says
that non-virtual and static member functions cannot be
accesses, but that's not the case anymore, AFAIR. And the
section about templates also says that there's no support.
That's the problem. We don't want to link to a page that's not
accurate when replying to comments on Reddit.
That page should also have information about avoiding the
garbage collector and the status of GC removal from the
standard library.
This information is currently spread over several articles with
a different focus each, and not up to date either:
http://dlang.org/garbage.html
http://wiki.dlang.org/Instantiating_Class_Objects_Elsewhere_Than_the_GC_Heap
http://wiki.dlang.org/Memory_Management
http://wiki.dlang.org/Versus_the_garbage_collector
I don't think we should treat both topics on the same page,
they're mostly unrelated (though people coming from C++ might
be interested in both, of course).
Maybe it wouldn't have to go on the same page, but at least links
to all the information should appear on the same page. The
current system with everything scattered here and there makes for
a bad first impression.
