On Friday, 13 November 2015 at 22:34:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hi everyone,
Recently there's been an uptick of site visits on dlang.org and
also dmd downloads (http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png).
Amid increased scrutiny it's important to focus on improving
documentation. I suggest everyone in the community to consider
improving dlang.org in any way. For Phobos in particular, the
lack of documentation and examples for some really useful
artifacts is damaging. Sometimes all it takes is adding "///"
to one unittest.
Thanks,
Andrei
I've lost count of how many threads I've seen in the past year
which run something like this:
A: D's C++ interop seems really weak based on this page:
http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html
B: That page is really out-of-date; support in the latest
compiler version is much better than that.
A: Is there somewhere else I can find up-to-date information?
B: No.
The last substantive update to
http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html was in May 2014. I'm not
qualified to update it myself, but it is clear just from skimming
it that it is indeed very out-of-date. Among other things, this
bit:
"...This means that the C++ STL, and C++ Boost, likely will
never be accessible from D."
Contradicts http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2015H1 :
"Smooth integration with C and C++ is an essential
competitive advantage of D. We aim to support significant C++
standard library interoperability by mid-2015 and full
interoperability on at least one platform by the end of 2015."
