What are the worst parts of D?

Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 25 10:29:09 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 13:51:17 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 25/09/14 09:38, Atila Neves wrote:
>
>> Here's one: having to manually generate the custom main file 
>> for
>> unittest builds. There's no current way (or at least there 
>> wasn't when I
>> brought it up in the dub forum) to tell it to autogenerate a D 
>> file from
>> a dub package and list it as a dependency of the unittest 
>> build.
>
> BTW, I would say that's a minor issue, far from begin enough to 
> create a completely new build system.

I agree. That's why I haven't written a build system yet. 
However, larger projects need this kind of thing. If I were 
working on a team of 20+ devs writing D, I'd eventually need it. 
I'd consider SCons, CMake, etc. but I'd still need dub for 
package management.

Atila


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