Thoughts about D

[Michael V. Franklin]

On Sunday, 3 December 2017 at 23:34:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

> If -betterC motivates people to come up with better solutions, 
> I'm all for it.

A better solution would be to do what Iain said:

> Try compiling a simple "hello world" with an empty object.d 
> file.  Then inspect what the compiler does.  Does it error and 
> exit, or does it ICE?  What can be done to prevent that from 
> happening?

> When you reach the point that there's no way but to declare a 
> symbol or function, add that to object.d and then move onto the 
> next error or ICE.  Repeat until you can compile and link your 
> program.

> Next, try something a little more complex, such as define a 
> struct and use it.  Then again address all problems that you 
> encounter with that.

It would be great for the compiler devs to run through this 
exercise themselves and make changes to the compiler/runtime 
interface to remove the irrelevant requirements the compiler is 
imposing.

Mike