On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 13:50:10 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 11:45:30 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
I like how he says that productivity is important and mentions
fear of meta-programming in the same article ;)
That's true, but meta programming is just a tool. Would be nice
to implement dynamic visualisation and interactivity with it
though.
The fear of meta programming comes from Boost, and rightly so in
my opinion. Boost is written with the assumption that users will
never have to read its source code. When it comes to debugging
and performance tuning however, that assumption is shattered.
Fortunately, D makes meta programming more simple, but it's
something to keep in mind.
Interesting though, I had totally different set of demands and
expectation when used to work with C/C++. Feels like industry
matters much more than a language here.
Absolutely. I'm beginning to learn of these differences since
leaving gamedev :-)
Boost is horrible, but even the STL proved to be quite
problematic.
Visualization would be a great tool, it's quite surprising if you
think about it that we can't in any mainstream debugger just
graph over time the state of objects, create UIs and so on.
I recently did write a tiny program that does live inspection of
memory areas as bitmaps, I needed that to debug image algorithms
so it's quite specialized... but once you do stuff like that it
comes natural to think that we should have the ability of
scripting visualizers in debuggers and have them update
continuously in runtime
http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2013/05/peeknpoke.html
