Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Jun 30 00:40:37 PDT 2011


On 2011-06-30 05:35, Ary Manzana wrote:
> On 6/30/11 1:00 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/29/2011 4:25 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Ddoc is:
>>
>> 7. We don't get left in the lurch if said third party quits.
>>
>> 8. Ddoc understands the semantics of D code. Third party doc generators
>> never will.
>
> So the semantics of D code can only be understood by the compiler? Hmmm...

The compiler will be the best tool for understanding a language. Unless 
you do something like Clang/LLVM does. Where the compiler and other 
tools build upon the same library that handles the language.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list