On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 13:37:29 UTC, Vladimir
Panteleev wrote:
On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 12:59:25 UTC, Josphe Brigmo
wrote:
The libraries are already copying the user's string and adding
the 0 termination prior to calling the windows api, so it
seems to me to be a reasonable place to make other
modifications if they are needed to accomplish the intended
operation.
That only works for absolute paths.
And that is all I'm using...
Yet it is somehow my fault for not reading the source of
phobos to make sure it is using unicode api? Which it is and
it's still failing!
Right. The problem is on the OS side.
again, this is why I generally end up regretting using D.
Can you list some programming languages that achieve this task
in a way you approve of?
Plenty, pick just about any one. C#, Haskell, javascript, lua,
python, perl, C++(yes, c++, we are not talking about language
features but usability). The simple fact is that C++ can be used
to do anything almost 100% correct while D can fail. D is only a
better language, not a better compiler(except it's speed).
You know, there is so many problems with D but you do not care to
see them.
Take the way the library is designed. strip? trim is the
standard. Then you get things like exists. Instead of fileExists
or dirExists. Not all that bad though, but what about slurp and
others that are just odd and for people that are not professional
D programmers requires one to look up the name of what they are
trying to do.
I don't know how many times I have typed in a name of a function
that is "standard" only to find out that is not what D used but
some odd ball name... or worse, it differs by a character or two.
You can pretend all you want about how great D is, but D is not
great, it is just great at some things. That goes for all
languages, but at least some languages let you enjoy the
experience.
With D, it seems the hard core users seem not to care about the
experience or think it's great because they don't know how much
better it can be.
This is the typical mindset with D. There are all these
"minor" problems that people(the D community pretends are all
that big a deal but when you couple all these problems
together it results in a very unpleasant programming
experience(out of all the languages I've programmed in D is
about the worse in this regard).
Please drop this tone, it will make you no allies.
I'm not here to make allies. Truth is not subjective and it
doesn't depend on how many friends you have that believe in the
same BS.
