On 14/02/2011 12:37, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-02-13 16:07, Gary Whatmore wrote:
Paulo Pinto Wrote:
"Nick Sabalausky"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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That's not the compiler, that's the linker. I don't know what linker
DMD
uses on OSX, but on Windows it uses OPTLINK which is written in
hand-optimized Asm so it's really hard to change. But Walter's been
converting it to C (and maybe then to D once that's done) bit-by-bit
(so
to speak), so linker improvements are at least on the horizon.
...
Why C and not directly D?
It is really bad adversting for D to know that when its creator came
around
to
rewrite the linker, Walter decided to use C instead of D.
I'm guessing that Walter feels more familiar and comfortable
developing C/C++ instead of D. He's the creator of D, but has written
very small amounts of D and probably cannot write idiomatic D very
fluently. Another issue is the immature toolchain.
This might sound like blasphemy, but I believe the skills and
knowledge for developing large scale applications in language XYZ
cannot be extrapolated from small code snippets or from experience
with projects in other languages. You just need to eat your own
dogfood and get your feet wet by doing.
People like the Tango's 'kris' and this 'h3r3tic' are the real world D
experts. Sadly they've all left D. We need a new generation of
experts, because these old guys ranting about every issue are more
harmful than good to the community.
Kris is still around.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean "still around". Still working with D?
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
