On 2011-10-13 01:43, J Arrizza wrote:
Hi,
I'm just starting out in D, read the book, tried a Hello World, and
wrote a few unit tests. I'm ready for the next step.
I'd like to begin writing some more complex D code which I want to use
not only as a test bed to investigate D itself to a deeper level but if
it's successful to eventually use it as the beginnings of a toolkit for
our internal use.
I'm looking for some recommendations from folks with lots of experience
in D:
1) Which to use: Phobos, Tango, or Tangobos? It makes sense for us to
use D2 so this seems to preclude Tango for now. Correct?
Most people will definitely say D2 and Phobos. I still think Tango is
better and for the time being that means D1. I also think that some
parts of D2 is not quite ready yet.
Are there plans to merge or standardize on one of these? Phobos and
Tango seem to be incompatible with each other at this point.
Yes, Tango and Phobos are incompatible. There are someone/a couple of
people working on porting Tango to D2. I think that port will use
druntime, meaning it will be compatible with Phobos.
My worry here is if we choose the wrong underlying library we end up
having to re-write a lot of code later on.
2) Which compiler? DMD, GDC or something else? We use Ubuntu 10.04, 64
bit as our development platform. I'm assuming the gc is in all the D
compilers.
DMD is a good compiler for development. It's the fastest available D
compiler (as far as I know). It's always up to date, LDC and GDC can be
a release behind DMD. I don't know what's best for production. I usually
hear people saying that LDC and GDC is better than DMD but I haven't
done any benchmarking myself.
3) DDT (eclipse plugin) seems relatively green. Any other suggestions
for an IDE. Not a big deal for us, but it's nice to have source
formatting. The DDT folks indicated that that feature is a long way off
for them.
There's an older plugin for Eclipse called Descent. It has source
formatting and a couple of more nice and interesting features, like
compile time debugging. I also shows both syntax and semantic errors
(semantic errors are disable by default). I still uses this plugin but I
can be quite slow and unfortunate it's not maintained anymore. I still
recommend you take a look at it.
http://dsource.org/projects/descent
Otherwise I use TextMate on Mac OS X. There's also a similar application
called E (text editor) available on Windows (in the works for Linux
too). It's compatible with TextMate's bundles.
Thanks,
John
--
/Jacob Carlborg
