On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 22:48:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 22:33:37 UTC, Aedt wrote:
I've been playing with D for a while. I usually
write/maintain/contribute to C and C++ applications for *nix.
D is low key amazing, it has
- C standard library in the standard
- continually improving betterC idioms
- built in version blocks, unit test and debug blocks
- painless doc gen
- modules and painless dependency handling
- linter, formatting tool and suggestion tool independent of
editors
Thanks a lot for these kind words!
Now if D manages all of the following it's going to be even
better:
- complete porting the C99 compliant C compiler fornt end to
the D compiler so you can seamlessly just import C headers
(like C++)
I heard that Walter recently ported his DMC++ to D and I heard
that someone was working on this, so chances aren't too bad
that this might happen ;-)
- Improve shared library support
What do you miss / are referring to?
Don't know about other C programmers but if D grants me to
write C with modules, doc gen and dep handling, I can switch
any day! But I need to be able to use tons of C libraries
without having to writing wrappers for them.
Not sure whether you are aware of these two projects?
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep (converts C headers to
D headers auto-magically)
https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso (LDC fork which allows
direct interfacing with C/C++ code)
For my use cases dstep works nicely.
Would be nice to have a facility to generate C headers from a
module, ala' `-H` but instead of generating D .di to generate C
compilable .h files.
I find it tedious to manually generate those, so for some
projects I use some template magic and pragma(msg, ...) to
generate a bunch of defines/declarations, but having it build in
into the compiler would make it even better!
