On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 17:52:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 6/12/14, 10:40 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 6/10/2014 12:35 PM, justme wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:13:39 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Of possible interest.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/278twt/panel_systems_programming_in_2014_and_beyond/
Andrei
IMHO, the coolest thing was when Rob Pike told about the tool
they made
for automatically upgrading user source code to their next
language
version.
That should be quite easy to implement now in D, and once
done, would
give much needed room for breaking changes we feel should be
done. Pike
seemed to be extremely satisfied they did it.
Personally, I wouldn't be comfortable trusting such a tool.
Besides, I
find that upgrading a codebase to a newer language version is
one of the
most trivial tasks I ever face in software development - even
in D.
It's a cute trick, but not a worthwhile use of development
resources.
I very much think the opposite, drawing from many years of
hacking into large codebases. I'm completely with Rob here. On
a large codebase, even the slightest manual or semi-manual
change is painstaking to plan and execute, and almost always
suffers of human errors.
I got convinced a dfix tool would be a strategic component of
D's offering going forward.
Andrei
I thought the same. I was considering writing it, actually.
Imagine how having the tool would have influenced the "final by
default" discussion. Amongst others, of course.
Atila
