Is the D community lacking development tools?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:36:54 -0400, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> On Friday, May 25, 2012 13:52:05 simendsjo wrote:
>> Couldn't dmd automatically add an assert(c) in debug mode before  
>> accessing
>> members?
>
> That's been argued for ages. Walter is against it, because the OS already
> takes care of it with segfaults. you can either run the program again  
> (which
> isn't necessarily true, but I believe with the programs that he seems to  
> run
> normally, it is, so he's got somewhat of a skewed perspective on that),  
> or if
> you have core dumps enabled, you can just examine the core dump to see  
> what
> happened. Also, adding all of those assertions would also negatively  
> impact
> non-release mode - and possibly by quite a bit, since it would be  
> happening
> all over the place, so there's that to consider.
>
> Regardless, it's a rather devisive subject. I think that _most_ people  
> would
> like to have such assertions added in non-release mode, but since  
> Walter's
> against it, it's never happened.

No, I'd rather have a stack trace printed from the signal handler...

-Steve