Re: reggae v0.10.0 - The meta build system just got better
On Thursday, 7 September 2023 at 17:34:48 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: https://code.dlang.org/packages/reggae For those who don't know, reggae is a meta-build system for and in D. It's like CMake... How mature is the build system? FWIW, I would like to stay in Meson if I can, since I use C++ also and that makes combining libs and other niceties easier.
Re: LDC 1.7.0
On Sunday, 7 January 2018 at 12:22:17 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 16:25:46 UTC, German Diago wrote: - want no gc? Ok, at least there is BetterC, so if I invest myself quite a bit on D (I am the kind of programmer that likes to squeeze power out of machines, so this always means that I will not consider VM languages), I will always have. Also, it's perfectly possible to avoid most of the downsides of the GC (and keep some of the upsides) without worrying about BetterC. @nogc where you need it is great, BetterC is a much more extreme solution. Yes, that is my guess also, but there are chances that I will be in these extreme situations myself, not for my pet projects, but for some embedded stuff I want to do. That is why I want something without runtime for microcontrollers at some point. Just to have the possibility open. For now I think I will stick to C++ for that (a subset) until I am confident D can do perfectly ok there. I know D is designed for that also (modulo GC and runtime) but I still need to see the practical, day to day problems if I use D for such a thing instead of C++, which I know quite well.
Re: LDC 1.7.0
On Monday, 8 January 2018 at 03:14:32 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 16:25:46 UTC, German Diago wrote: negative points also as I use it :p. By the way, and a bit off-topic for the post, but, if I want to port my code to run on Android/iOS, what is the recommended way? 1. create a shared library and consume it? Is that possible and smooth enough for ARM? Yes, that is the way native apps are invoked on Android, see the wiki for more info: http://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android iOS support is in limbo, as a contributor got very far with it but hasn't had time for it lately. Thanks for the link!
Re: LDC 1.7.0
On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote: Hi everyone, on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell: * Based on D 2.077.1. * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows. * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1. Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0 Thanks to all contributors! I just dropped here to say that I have been considering Nim and D for a while and, to some extent, Rust. You are guys doing a great job shaping D for *real projects*, which is what I care about the most. I think I will definitely go with D finally when I try an alternative to C++ (though C++ still remains my main language). I still have to give it a serious try, but this is what made me convinced: - a superior interoperability story (C and C++, Objective-C, Windows, now adding the C++ exception catching...). I cannot emphasize enough how important this is for me. - a reasonable relearning and upgrade coming from C++. - very powerful generative programming. I see that things like generating bindings for scripting languages and others have an edge with static introspection + mixins. - more mature than Nim, at least at this point. - want no gc? Ok, at least there is BetterC, so if I invest myself quite a bit on D (I am the kind of programmer that likes to squeeze power out of machines, so this always means that I will not consider VM languages), I will always have. I hope I can give it a try with one (or two, to be decided) hobby projects I have been doing for a while. I will report the negative points also as I use it :p. By the way, and a bit off-topic for the post, but, if I want to port my code to run on Android/iOS, what is the recommended way? 1. create a shared library and consume it? Is that possible and smooth enough for ARM? - easy to understand for - a superior metaprogramming experience that is
