bearophile wrote:
I have written some comments about the article written by Andrei Alexandrescu:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8t7s1/the_case_for_d_the_other_side_of_the_coin/
Andrei has commented some things on Reddit, I think it's better to move the
discussion here.
Some comments are patently false (such as the one that you must compile with dmc
to call C functions on Windows).<
Is this true? I have seen many times people here answer that code has to be
compiled with DMC, etc. If I am wrong I'll fix the text.
Using C code from DMD on Windows is exactly the same as using it from
any Windows C++ compiler (or even a C compiler from a different
vendor!). The statement should be removed.
"Giving false expectations in possible new D users is dangerous."
"A good article must...not just talk about good implementations that may
be found years from now."
I agree with this. But your list doesn't help. I don't think there's
anything in your list which new users need to know.
