On Wednesday, 22 May 2013 at 16:50:45 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
2a): dmd -flagstyle=new -of=blah ... (+ other stuff/deprecations taken into account) 2b): dmd2 (reminds of D2, ldc2, ldmd2), which behaves as dmd -flagstyle=new.
I think dmd2 should be the new compiler binary, and dmd should be changed into a thin "driver" that converts the old syntax into the new and calls dmd2 (or just calls into a common shared library).
*No breaking changes*. So, *no strong reason* not to improve the command line syntax.
D is great, but the syntax of dmd makes for a bad first impression, which is vital in a "new" language.
