On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu < seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
> On 6/8/11 4:38 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad >> <public@kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote: >> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hudvd/ >> the_go_programming_language_or_why_all_clike/ >> >> The author presents a "wish list" for his perfect systems programming >> language, and claims that Go is the only one (somewhat) fulfilling it. >> With the exception of item 7, the list could well be an >> advertisement for >> D. >> >> -Lars >> >> >> I found the comments on the Hacker News post >> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2631964> about this article more >> interesting. >> >> Regards, >> Brad Anderson >> > > Agreed. The top poster does repeat a point made by others: D does fail on > point 7. Allow me to paste it: > > ============= > 7. Module Library and Repository > I want all the niceties I have grown used to in scripting languages > built-in or part of the standard library. A public package repository with a > decent portable package manager is even better. Typical packages include > internet protocols, parsing of common syntaxes, GUI, crypto, common > mathematical algorithms, data processing and so on. (Example: Perl 5 CPAN) > ============= > > That's it. We need a package management expert on board to either revive > dsss or another similar project, or define a new package manager altogether. > No "yeah I have some code somewhere feel free to copy from it"; we need > professional execution. Then we need to make that tool part of the standard > distribution such that library discovery, installation, and management is as > easy as running a command. > > I'm putting this up for grabs. It's an important project of high impact. > Wondering what you could do to help D? Take this to completion. > > > I'm not an expert, but I've been quietly working on a build tool that I'm hoping to make into a drop-in replacement for dsss with the incremental build advantages of xfbuild. I'll toss it on github when it can parse a dsss config and build from that. Right now, it's basically a very simple xfbuild. As for the packaging aspect of dsss, I'll have to take a closer look at how it was originally implemented.
