What are the worst parts of D?

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-09-25 20:49, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> The compiler and compile flags are inputs to the build rules in SCons.
>
> In my SCons projects, when I change compile flags (possibly for a subset
> of source files), it correctly figures out which subset (or the entire
> set) of files needs to be recompiled with the new flags. Make fails, and
> you end up with an inconsistent executable.
>
> In my SCons projects, when I upgrade the compiler, it recompiles
> everything with the new compiler. Make doesn't detect a difference, and
> if you make a change and recompile, suddenly you got an executable 80%
> compiled with the old compiler and 20% compiled with the new compiler.
> Most of the time it doesn't make a difference... but when it does, have
> fun figuring out where the problem lies. (Or just make clean; make yet
> again... the equivalent of which is basically what SCons would have done
> 5 hours ago.)
>
> In my SCons projects, when I upgrade the system C libraries, it
> recompiles everything that depends on the updated header files *and*
> library files. In make, it often fails to detect that the .so's have
> changed, so it fails to relink your program. Result: your executable
> behaves strangely at runtime due to wrong .so being linked, but the
> problem vanishes once you do a make clean; make.

I see, thanks for the explanation.

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/Jacob Carlborg