On Saturday, 7 April 2012 at 23:58:20 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Jonas:
Hello D community! :-)
Welcome here.
I was looking for a sane, object-oriented,
possible-to-go-low-level programming language, so I decided to
give D a try today.
D supports OOP well enough, but template-based programming
seems equally fit or even more. Also keep in mind that the D GC
is not so efficient, so avoid creating too many small objects,
as you do in Java.
1) First off, I really couldn't figure out were I was supposed
to post this sort of message.
This is the right place.
2) I couldn't find any good documentation on the build process
and tools I'm supposed to use. Do you guys use standard
Makefiles? Do you have your own build system? Would be really
helpful if that was covered on the website.
One tool fit for not huge programs is rdmd. I use "bud" still,
but it's getting obsolete.
3) While your error messages are a lot better than GCCs (gives
you more context, hints about how the compiler interpreted
your buggy program, etc) it wouldn't hurt if you made them a
bit more graphical using colors and markers and such (LLVM
like).
I don't think Walter will love this idea.
Could you please elaborate on this a bit more? What's the problem
with helpful compiler messages?
What are use cases for explicit pointers when passing objects?
That's not covered in the documentation AFAIT.
It's not documented because you don't use explicit pointers to
pass objects around. Pointers are used to pass structs around
when you don't want to copy them.
Thanks for the explanation!
Take a look here for many small examples programs in D to do
many different kind of things (not all of them are up to date
or fully correct, but most of them are good, and the wrong ones
are being fixed one after the other):
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:D
That looks great, thanks, although it's a bit cluttered with all
those languages ;-)
