Calypso and the future of D

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 09:58:25 UTC, Ulrich Küttler wrote:
> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 08:59:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/26/2015 12:18 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>
>>> Calypso is not a separate tool. It's a fork of LDC which 
>>> allows you to directly
>>> import/include a C++ header files and use the declarations 
>>> from within D. No
>>> bindings or intermediate files are necessary.
>>
>> Thank you. That really, really needs to go into the README.md, 
>> especially the last paragraph.
>
> Now I feel sorry for Elie. He contributed a great idea, put in 
> a huge amount of work, still has miles to go, tried hard to be 
> helpful and D's very own mastermind does not seem to care 
> enough to read his announcement. His very first sentence reads
>
> "I have the pleasure to announce to you all the existence of a 
> modified LDC able to interface directly to C++ libraries, 
> wiping out the need to write bindings:"
>
> The idea is just brilliant. I for one am excited about the 
> prospect. Lets please discuss how to get the plugin into D, 
> sooner rather than later. No language is an island. (Apologies 
> to Nick Hornby and everyone else offended.)

A fast way to kill the language would be to add "great new 
features" that are not properly documented. Walter's comments 
were correct IMO. I was not at all clear about those things, but 
I wasn't going to say so.