Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-23 Thread kiran kumari via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:35:55 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:29:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4021 I'm pleasantly surprised that the decision has been made to fix that. I thought we'd be stuck with

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-23 Thread kiran kumari via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 12:39:23 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote: There was a recent video[1] by Jonathan Blow about what he would want in a programming language designed specifically for game development. Go, Rust, and D were mentioned and his reason for not wanting to use D is is that it is "

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-23 Thread kiran kumari via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:24:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 9/23/14, 11:22 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 24/09/14 06:59, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote: I agree with Sean quite a bit here. Let's turn the camera around and look at it from a different angle. I'm hard p

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-23 Thread kiran kumari via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:24:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 9/23/14, 11:22 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 24/09/14 06:59, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote: I agree with Sean quite a bit here. Let's turn the camera around and look at it from a different angle. I'm hard p

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-23 Thread kiran kumari via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:27:54 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 24/09/14 05:59, Walter Bright wrote: No, that's not the problem. The problem is what to do when the "larger project" fails. Currently, it is the submitter's job to adjust the test suite, fix phobos code, whatever is ne

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-23 Thread kiran kumari via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:24:39 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 24/09/14 06:31, Walter Bright wrote: But it is a bit unreasonable to expect large project maintainers to rebuild and check for bugs every day. It's why we have a beta test program. The solution is to make it automatic

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-23 Thread kiran kumari via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:13:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 23/09/14 18:19, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It's been this for a good while, and it will probably be until done. -- Andrei So why isn't there a publicly available road map? Note, this one [1] doesn't mention C++ nor th

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-23 Thread kiran kumari via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 16:54:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 9/20/14, 7:42 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote: On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 12:39:23 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote: What do you think are the worst parts of D? Oh another bad part of D is the attribute names with some being posit