On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 04:17:18 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
Hi,
to be usable for companies which want to create economic
software,
in my opinion D lacks std.decimal. Maybe some companies will
develop their
own decimal libraries but for the others they won't.
There is some great work, but currently it seems to be blocked
by std.bigint
https://github.com/andersonpd/eris/issues/6
For the tooling I can only speak for windows environment. To
have a sophisticated
IDE, the DLL topic needs some love. DLL are a major topic on
windows and without
sophisticated DLL support, it is hardly possible to build an
integrated IDE similar
to the well known like Visual Studio/Delphi/...
One major issue I faced, I create a class in a DLL and cannot
cast the class
in my main application to another type due to the missing type
info.
The workaround would be to have massive code duplication, which
makes the code more complex.
Also here some great work are already done but blocked by the
"export semantic" topic.
Kind regards
André
how true.
we discarded D for development after discovering these problems
after a 2 hour discussion in our company. nobody had a problem
with the gc or the other previously mentioned points except for:
Documentation and tutorials are weak.
It was also the general impression, that windows is an orphan and
there should be no risk taking with D because of that.
instead of taking about decimal etc., you should fix the minimum
issues of the language to make it useful for development, in our
case windows, even if this train left the station.
