Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[KennyTM~]

On Jun 30, 11 13:20, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/29/2011 8:35 PM, 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...
>
> How many third party doc generators include essentially a compiler for
> every language they support - or even for any of them?

You don't need a compiler to understand a language for documenting the 
code. A lexer is enough. And Pygment does support D.

http://pygments.org/languages/

Note that I and likely James Fisher are not talking about generating 
header docs (i.e. Phobos docs), which point 8 will be valid. We're 
talking about http://d-programming-language.org/language-reference.html 
which restricting the choice to DDoc is unnecessary.