In language tooling

cym13 via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Mar 5 17:05:12 PST 2016


On Friday, 4 March 2016 at 17:49:10 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> I think I've heard him say that tools should be part of the 
> language. However, I haven't watched that video and anyway am 
> not sure how important CTFE would be to this effort.
>
> Anyway, D has things like dfix, dfmt, dscanner, dcd, dustmite, 
> digger. I think there was some discussion about including these 
> along with compilers.
>
> I recall some comparison to gofmt which will format go code. 
> Maybe that was in Blow's talk...

I think you should see the video before further commenting on it, 
the kind of tooling he is talking about is really quite peculiar. 
You don't have to watch the full video, I think from 5:00 to 8:00 
is enough to get the main idea of what he does.


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