Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:10:01 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > On 2/13/11, Alan Smithee <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andrej Mitrovic Wrote: >> >>> Could you elaborate on that? Aren't .di files supposed to be auto- >> generated by the compiler, and not hand-written? >> >> Yea, aren't they? How come no one uses that feature? Perhaps it's >> intrinsically broken? *hint hint* >> >> >> This NG assumes a curious stance. Sprouting claims and standing by them >> until they're shown invalid, and then some. This is not the way to go >> for a new language. It's YOUR job (not yours in particular, Andrej) to >> demonstrate the feasibility of a certain feature, ONLY THEN can you >> claim how it may solve any issues. And it needs to be more than a >> 10-line Hello World. Because you can concatenate Hello World 1,000,000 >> times, D can work for multi million line projects, right? >> >> "But it takes time!" ... uh, yea, how's for 11 years? Or at least 4 >> which D has been past the 1.0 version. How many people gave up on their >> med/large projects and moved to "lesser" languages in this span? >> >> > On 2/13/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andrej Mitrovic Wrote: >> >>> Could you elaborate on that? Aren't .di files supposed to be auto- >> generated by the compiler, and not hand-written? >> >> Yea, aren't they? How come no one uses that feature? Perhaps it's >> intrinsically broken? *hint hint* >> >> >> This NG assumes a curious stance. Sprouting claims and standing by them >> until they're shown invalid, and then some. This is not the way to go >> for a new language. It's YOUR job (not yours in particular, Andrej) to >> demonstrate the feasibility of a certain feature, ONLY THEN can you >> claim how it may solve any issues. And it needs to be more than a >> 10-line Hello World. Because you can concatenate Hello World 1,000,000 >> times, D can work for multi million line projects, right? >> >> "But it takes time!" ... uh, yea, how's for 11 years? Or at least 4 >> which D has been past the 1.0 version. How many people gave up on their >> med/large projects and moved to "lesser" languages in this span? >> >> > Heh. :) > > I'm not claiming that I know that everything works, I only know as much > as I've tried. When I've hit a bug in a multi-thousand line project I'll > report it to bugzilla. > > So what's broken about generating import modules, is it already in > bugzilla? I've only heard about problems with templates so far, so I > don't know. If they're really broken we can push Walter & Co. to fix > them. > > I know of a technique, too. I've heard posting a random comment on a D > reddit thread about a D bug usually gets Andrei to talk with Walter in > private ASAP and fix it right away.
I wish there were more news about D. This would bring us more reddit threads and thus more bug fixes.
