On 27 December 2013 06:59, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
> Rémy Mouëza: > > > There also have been several projects to make a D REPL, >> > > I'd like a good REPL in the default distributions, because it's an useful > tool to speed up coding, to test and try things, it's very useful if you > want to use D for exploratory coding, and it's kind of standard if you want > to use a language for interactive mathematics (iPython with matPlotLib, > Julia language, Mathematica, Sage, Scala etc). I'd like Walter to comment > on this. > In my experience with vibe.d, it's a massive pain in the arse that it's compiled. It seems to me that web dev involves squillions of micro-changes and tweaks, and it's bloody annoying to compile and reboot the server every time. vibe.d apps should be compiled for deployment, but a JIT option while developing/tweaking/tuning would speed up development by about 934x. I think that's the main hold-up for vibe.d compared to popular competition; the iteration time is just not good, but otherwise it's awesome.