Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Knud Soerensen" <4tuu4k002 at sneakemail.com> wrote in message 
news:h49mfs$vf2$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> Some time ago I need a script to get and process some data.
> I trough why not use D, but I couldn't find a function in the standard 
> library which would get a simple web page with http.
> Instead of find and downloading other libraries I switched to peal and had 
> it running in no time.
>
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> ** Unit test isolation
> I would like to be able to isolate the unit test,
> so that if one fail the next still runs.
>

You may want to keep an eye on my SemiTwist D Tools 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/semitwist/

I haven't gotten around to releasing it yet, but it includes an alternate to 
assert that delays the "exit app" until you tell it to:

int x = 7;
mixin(deferAssert!("x == 9"));
mixin(deferAssert!("2+2==5", "Reality is broken"));
flushAsserts(); // Can put this at the beginning of main to wait for all 
unittests to run before bailing.
// Now you get both errors, not just the first one.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get around the awkward "mixin" part though. 
(It also doesn't seem to work inside in{} out{} blocks, not sure why yet, I 
think there may be some limitation I'm not aware of about the code allowed 
in those.)

In the same project I'm also working on a library that will provide, with 
one import, a full kitchen-sink scripting-style environment that should make 
the tasks like your example above much much easier in D.