On Friday, 8 March 2013 at 17:40:58 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 3/8/13, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote:
On 3/7/2013 8:16 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
Personally, even though I don't use win32, I believe that
moving it over
to use the VS toolchain and runtime is the
right path forward.
I like being able to provide a completely free D toolchain for
win32.
s/for win32/./
:)
Honestly D has huge potential for tools like
compilers/linkers/etc.
They're the types of programs where you practically know all
your
requirements at compile-time, so e.g. generics come into play
really
nicely.
Personally I prefer FP based languages for this type of work,
given how easy it is to manipulate ASTs.
--
Paulo