Lang.NEXT panel

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 12 13:48:08 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 17:52:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I very much think the opposite, drawing from many years of 
> hacking into large codebases. I'm completely with Rob here. On 
> a large codebase, even the slightest manual or semi-manual 
> change is painstaking to plan and execute, and almost always 
> suffers of human errors.
>
> I got convinced a dfix tool would be a strategic component of 
> D's offering going forward.

It essentially comes down to persistent compiler-as-a-library 
issue :( Tools like dscanner can help with some of more simple 
transition cases but anything more complicated is likely to 
require full semantic analysis.


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