On Friday, 1 March 2019 at 16:45:38 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Friday, 1 March 2019 at 14:50:45 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
I don't know what value it brings with the -i switch existing.
Almost none, except that it's twice as slow as DMD because it
needs to run DMD twice to learn about all the dependencies.
It's only useful for a few small things now:
- '-e': evaluate d code with all modules automatically imported
(though now that there's std.experimental.all this value is
gone too)
- makefile deps generation
- shebang line (as arguments can't be part of the shebang line)
(The list is not complete)
I forgot one big reason why rdmd is still nice: caching. It does
save the generated dependency file list and checks all
modification time stamps, s.t. if nothing has changed, it'll run
a cached build
