On 02/20/2013 06:55 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 01:55:00AM +0100, Rob T wrote:
On Thursday, 21 February 2013 at 00:48:50 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
[...]
Yes. Shared Libraries Please.
Thank you.
+1
It's the most important issue for me. Particular feature bugs can
be worked around, lack of shared library support is insurmountable
for many applications.
I was playing with LuaD (https://github.com/JakobOvrum/LuaD) and was
disappointed to learn that the only way to call D functions from Lua is
for the lua code to be 'inside' a D module. (string l = "lua goes here";
or similar)
There are a few tricks you can perform, but it placed a very real limit
on its usefulness. Which is sad because other than that LuaD is beautiful.
Yes, it's a major barrier towards adoption in a production
environment. Walter said it's now a priority, so I cross the fingers
and hope.
[...]
Better yet, maybe more of us should start delving into DMD's code...
Currently only a small number of people really understand the compiler,
which has a rather low bus factor. We need to increase that (not only to
improve the bus factor, but also so that more people are aware of
compiler issues and hopefully how to fix them).
T
I only know enough C/C++ to know that I don't know enough...
If I could, I would totally go tearing through the source right now.
But some of it seems ambiguous to me. I'm afraid I'd do more harm than
good.
