On Thursday, 5 April 2012 at 22:07:05 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
On Thursday, 5 April 2012 at 21:10:41 UTC, ReneSac wrote:
I will probably program close to C/Lua style (the languages
I'm most proficient with), but "pretty far" is vague. And I
haven't been following the time line of the feature additions,
like old users do, and I'm not sure if I should read the
entire changelog for some vague indication of the stability of
a feature...
The page I liked does have compiler versions for some of the
implemented features, as you appear to have noticed.
Ah, I saw "The following list of major issues dates from July
2009." So I supposed it was old, but now I see that I understood
wrong.
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel
Ok, that page gives some pointers. Seems like I shouldn't use
std.stream. So, std.cstream or std.stdio are safe?
Hmm, bring up a good point, I think someone is working on
revamping stdio, though I would think it would mostly remain
compatible. Who's doing that? Could you write the details here:
So, what I should use?
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ReviewQueue
Dynamic Arrays, Slicing, Unittest, conditional compilation and
compile time function execution should be working well, right?
Yep, there are some requested improvements but, things are
stable.
Good! Thanks.
What about std.paralelism and message passing, non-shared
multithreading?
I'm not sure how much use they have been getting, so it is hard
to say. I know there have been questions about how to use them,
but they seem solid.
If you get into using shared though, you'll probably walk into
areas that will require casting to get things done. I don't
know what if any changes are planned, but likely it needs a
closer look.
I would try to avoid anything shared anyway. It is hard to
program if "a++" isn't deterministic...
Sorry, forgot to cover that. I believe GDC will compile 64bit
Windows applications, but otherwise you can still compile and
run 32bit applications.
Most people use DMD, but GDC, I hear, should be on par.
I don't need a 64bit binary right now. Actually, I would even
prefer a 32bit one for development because then I can't run too
wild in memory usage. The problem is that DMD seems to require 32
bit windows, according to the page I linked... Is it not true?
Anyway, GDC seems to have quite better performance/optimization,
so I may end up using it... But I also heard bad things about it
in old posts... so...
