On Wednesday, 12 February 2020 at 11:46:02 UTC, Dennis wrote:
Thanks for your perspective. Just a few things are unclear to
me:
On Wednesday, 12 February 2020 at 10:39:06 UTC, mark wrote:
I don't find the presentation of the member properties and
methods very easy to read
Can you elaborate a bit on this?
Maybe I'm just used to the Python docs, but I find them a lot
easier to read.
The lack of set and B-tree types is disappointing (esp.
considering that the much younger Rust has them). I'm using
rbtree for sets but that imposes a requirement that my items
support < (rather than the == or hash I'd expect for a set).
This confuses me. So there is std.container.rbtree, but you
don't like that the element type needs to have an order
defined? How can Rust do binary search in a tree that has no
order?
If you are looking for a hashset, you can use an associative
array for that.
Naturally a tree needs <. But I want a set and since D doesn't
have one I can either use an AA or an rbtree and I was advised
that an rbtree is better for this purpose.
However, dub doesn't seem to be competitive with Rust's cargo.
Getting fast statically built (no dependency) executables is
really nice.
I've heard good things about cargo, but haven't used it myself
yet.
Do you have a specific thing dub can improve the most on?
Some cargo packages are applications. If I do 'cargo install
someapp' it will be installed in $HOME/.cargo/bin. So by simply
adding that to my PATH, I can easily use all installed rust apps.
But dub doesn't appear to have an equivalent of this.
