On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 19:13:18 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 17:14:29 UTC, Kyoji Klyden wrote:
On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 16:09:23 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 03:30:20 UTC, Kyoji Klyden wrote:
So idk, it feels silly and counterproductive to have D not
able to natively use C libraries. Are we just gonna have to
write D bindings to every notable library out there? Also I
don't see how it'd be problematic, if you don't want a C
preprocessor kicking in, then just don't import any C
source, and then the compiler will just skip that step. :P
That's how you end up with C++. The solution there is to use
only a subset of the language, but since everyone has her own
subset, you can either learn the whole language or not
interact with anyone else's code. A tool-based solution is
much better.
It's a fair argument. Regardless though, I feel like D has
lost it practicality for me for the time being. I might come
back to it in half a year and see if anything changes, but
unfortunately I don't see myself using D for any of my
projects I got lined up.
You have to make the right decision for you.
But from what you say, I am not sure if you are making it on
the basis of proper information about the tradeoffs involved.
It shouldn't be a difficult thing to port the headers for most
C libraries. Use dstep to do the work, and a bit of tidying up
after (which gets easier each time). Less time involved than
that involved in trying to fix just one nasty memory leak or
pointer problem in C code.
Sometimes though, cashflow dominates return on investment. If
one cannot spare the time then, ROI on learning something new
is irrelevant. One can't do much about that in the short term.
I definitely agree with you there. I'm sure dstep could work
quite well, but at the same time, for what I'm doing, there's
nothing in D I couldn't do in C, and C's the one with the
libraries + the endless supply of documentation. There really
isn't any reward for that extra percent of time/effort spent when
using D right now.
I still think D is rad, and will probably use it again sometime :)
