Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Simen Haugen" <simen.haugen at pandavre.com> wrote in message 
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> "Robert Fraser" <fraserofthenight at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> bearophile wrote:
>>> Python/Ruby and D are in two quite different classes of languages. 
>>> Usually where you use one of them you don't want to use the other.
>>
>> Not necessarily. D is still useful for quick scripting. More to the 
>> point, webapps are often written with Ruby/Python/Perl backends which 
>> could be swapped out for one written in a native language to help 
>> performance.
>
> I agree with the scripting. I'm still using quite a lot of python, but 
> when I'm doing small programs I'm often using D to avoid the bloat of 
> py2exe.
> Too sad I haven't gotten PyD to work with larger classes, and it seems it 
> won't be updated until D2.

If you're referring to the errors you get from the linker about symbol 
length, there's nothing Kirk can do about it.  It's a major shortcoming of 
the DMD Windows object format and linker, namely an extremely limited symbol 
length.  It works fine with all the other compiler combinations (GDCWin, 
DMDLin, GDCLin).