tooling quality and some random rant

Don nospam at nospam.com
Mon Feb 14 02:12:21 PST 2011


golgeliyele wrote:
> I am relatively new to D. As a long time C++ coder, I love D. Recently, I have started doing some coding with D. One of the things that
> bothered me was the 'perceived' quality of the tooling. There are some relatively minor things that make the tooling look bad.

> The error reporting has issues as well. I noticed that the compiler leaks low level errors to the user. If you forget to add a main to your
> app or misspell it, you get errors like:
> ====
> Undefined symbols:
>   "__Dmain", referenced from:
>       _D2rt6dmain24mainUiPPaZi7runMainMFZv in libphobos2.a(dmain2_513_1a5.o)
> ====
> I mean, wow, this should really be handled better.

Not solvable in general, but still solvable in the cases that matter. 
Created a bug report:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5573


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