Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/25/14, 3:58 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 23:40:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/25/14, 3:22 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>>
>>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1yts5n/facebook_open_sources_flint_a_c_linter_written_in/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> An interesting comment from Reddit:
>>>
>>> klusark>I've been trying to build this for the past hour. It requires
>>> folly. folly requires some "double-conversion" library, but you can't
>>> use the default version, you have to build it with scripts from folly's
>>> source. After I finally get folly to get past configure stage I get some
>>> random python error in one of the build scripts. I just gave up at this
>>> point. I'm sure I could get it working, but the time isn't worth it.<
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>
>> Ironically that's for the obsoleted C++ program. The D program is
>> trivial to build.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Somewhat related, what ideas in Folly do you think we should borrow for
> Phobos?
>
> It seems like there is a lot of nice stuff in there:
> https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Overview.md

I like throwErrno and friends a lot.

Andrei