progress-dmd: compilation with a progress bar

[Stefan Koch]

On Friday, 22 February 2019 at 08:36:24 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
> https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/6c67479c99bc0f20544d1e455622ae82
>
> Usage: DMD=<path> progress-dmd <args>
>
> The script sets -v and then uses the code and semantic stages 
> logged in the output to paint a cute little ANSI-colored 
> progress bar, with one character for every file listed on the 
> command line.
>
> Problems:
>
>  - lots of time spent in function compilation cannot be cleanly 
> attributed to a source module
>  - sometimes with very long progress bars, regular compiler 
> output can leave pieces of progress bar behind
>  - colored progress bar painting is surprisingly hard

Nice idea awesome stuff!

Cheers,

Stefan