Breaking changes in Visual C++ 2015

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 8 07:16:26 PDT 2015


On Friday, 8 May 2015 at 09:52:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> That's not to say that there's not value in some of those 
> features, but I think that the language itself has a very good 
> foundation for unit testing with covers the 90% case, and if 
> others want to create their own unit testing frameworks to 
> handle more complex cases, they're certainly free to do so.

My estimation is 20% - they apply to simplistic self-contained 
libraries like phobos and warp. My impression is not much code 
falls in this category. Even dmd doesn't, and it's already rather 
simplistic.

> Certainly, being able to just put unit tests in my modules 
> rather than having to find and link against a 3rd party unit 
> test framework is a definite improvement over other languages 
> that I've used.

Inability to use 3rd party libraries is a packaging (tooling) 
issue, though.


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