ponce wrote:
> Hi D lovers,
>
> We managed to win the demo compo at the Numerica Artparty #2 with a D demo
> entry.
> http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52780
>
> Source code will be released soon under the WTFPL because some sceners were
> interested in D.
Awesome! Congratulations!
> As I understood, C++ is usually prefered by demosceners over D because of
> supposed "performance problems" with D, which are in fact negligible
> regarding the productivity gain.
>
> Though, despite the usual pleasure to use D we encounter several compiler
> bugs in dmd 1.040. These bugs were somewhat random and would disappear during
> a 2nd compiling attempt :
> - frozen compiler (often)
The only times I've ever had this happen to me, it was the linker that
had died.
> - circular dependencies (less often)
> - I think debug{...} directive would not compile despite -debug switch
>
> Thanks for the good work and for this near-perfect language ^^
Looking forward to the release. :)
-- Daniel
