D demoscene compo

ponce aliloko at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 19:25:49 PDT 2009


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.


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)
- 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 ^^


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