What Makes A Programming Language Good

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jan 18 12:17:08 PST 2011


Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> IMO, sticking to the C-ism of "one object file at a time" and dependency 
> on external build tools / makefiles is the biggest mistake DMD did in 
> this regard.

You don't need such a tool with dmd until your project exceeds a certain size. 
Most of my little D projects' "build tool" is a one line script that looks like:

     dmd foo.d bar.d

There's just no need to go farther than that.


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