What are the worst parts of D?

luminousone via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Sep 22 10:16:45 PDT 2014


On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 22:17:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 08:49:38AM +0000, via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 00:07:36 UTC, Vladimir 
>> Panteleev wrote:
>> >On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 12:39:23 UTC, Tofu Ninja 
>> >wrote:
>> >>What do you think are the worst parts of D?
>> >
>> >The regressions!
>> >
>> >https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=regression&list_id=106988&resolution=---
>> >
>> >I filed over half of those...
>> 
>> I guess you found them using your own code base? Maybe it 
>> would make
>> sense to add one or more larger projects to the autotester, in
>> addition to the unit tests. They don't necessarily need to be
>> blocking, just a notice "hey, your PR broke this and that 
>> project"
>> would surely be helpful to detect the breakages early on.
>
> This has been suggested before. The problem is resources. If 
> you're
> willing to donate equipment for running these tests, it would 
> be greatly
> appreciated, I believe.
>
> For my part, I regularly try compiling my own projects with git 
> HEAD,
> and filing any regressions I find.
>
>
> T

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