Re: Blocking points for further D adoption

2016-07-08 Thread dalailambda via Digitalmars-d
It's been suggested that DMD/LDC/GDC could be combined into a bundle, say DCC, and when you call DCC hello.d it will call dmd hello.d, and if you call DCC -fast hello.d it will call ldc hello.d or gdc hello.d This will give newcomers a different experience. I'm wondering if you couldn't a

Re: Blocking points for further D adoption

2016-06-30 Thread dalailambda via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 23:48:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DMD *is* the official compiler. That's what a reference compiler is. The other compilers are there for those who want them and are developed independently of DMD. It's no different from the situation with Java (with the exception tha

Re: Blocking points for further D adoption

2016-06-30 Thread dalailambda via Digitalmars-d
As someone who has recently chosen D for a major project (a game/engine), I can confidently say that the biggest distinction for me between getting start with D versus something like Go is developer tooling. For Go I installed Go, installed a go intellij plugin, which automatically installed go