What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/18/11 4:32 AM, Trass3r wrote:
>> Then I would expect the library vendor provides either a pre-compiled
>> binary library
>
> As soon as you provide templates in your library this isn't sufficient anymore.
>
>> or the means to readily generate same -- whether that
>> means a Makefile, a script, or what have you.
>
> We must avoid having the same disastrous situation like C/C++ where everyone uses
> a different system, CMake, make, scons, blabla. Makefiles aren't portable (imo
> stuff like msys is no solution, it's a hack) and especially for small or
> medium-sized projects it's often enough to compile a single main file and all of
> its dependencies.
> We really need a standard, portable way to compile D projects, be it implemented
> in the compiler or in some tool everyone uses.
> dsss was kind of promising but as you know it's dead.

You may add to bugzilla the features that rdmd needs to acquire.

Andrei