Here's looking at you, kid

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 13 15:44:51 PST 2015


On 11/13/15 6:24 PM, tsbockman wrote:
> On Friday, 13 November 2015 at 22:34:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> Recently there's been an uptick of site visits on dlang.org and also
>> dmd downloads (http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png).
>>
>> Amid increased scrutiny it's important to focus on improving
>> documentation. I suggest everyone in the community to consider
>> improving dlang.org in any way. For Phobos in particular, the lack of
>> documentation and examples for some really useful artifacts is
>> damaging. Sometimes all it takes is adding "///" to one unittest.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I've lost count of how many threads I've seen in the past year which run
> something like this:
>
> A: D's C++ interop seems really weak based on this page:
>      http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html
>
> B: That page is really out-of-date; support in the latest compiler
> version is much better than that.
>
> A: Is there somewhere else I can find up-to-date information?
>
> B: No.

Almost all the updates to the C++ interface stuff was done to get ddmd 
working.

Since one guy was working on it and he is a compiler dev, I think he 
just did a lot of the stuff that was needed without thinking about a 
nice document on how it works.

I definitely think it's something that should be updated.

-Steve


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