My 2nd D app in production. I and my new buddy Claude wrote a
log parser for MySql. Simple bread&butter program, but it was
easy and fun to write, performant and pleasing to the eye.
There are probably a number of MySQL log parsers out there, but I
wanted to build my own.
I found std.getopt, I like to write small things like that,
simple useful that saves a lot of time, the problem is to find
them when you have not written them yourself.
Before this app I tried to write a bare metal program in D
myself, following an example I found on the net. I could not make
it work. I asked Claude to create one, he created a working
example after some fixing.
Claude complaint that BetterC was missing something (I forgot
what it was) and that made it more difficult, than using C. I
realised betterC is not a superset of C, but something else.
I also realised D bare metal is to hard for me, native assembler
is probably a better option for me.
Somewhere I have have a Raspberry Pi4, I will try to find it, and
write some D code there. I hope that works better than bare metal.
One question is Raspberry Pi a good 'host' for D?
