What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Fri Dec 29 22:24:59 UTC 2017


On Friday, 29 December 2017 at 21:56:26 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Friday, 29 December 2017 at 21:34:14 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 12/28/2017 11:53 PM, IM wrote:
>>> Simple things like these make a big difference. D Lang has 
>>> been around for a long while now, and hence signs of its 
>>> maturity has to show everywhere, especially in the compiler, 
>>> as well as the package manager.
>>
>> Diverging from the:
>>
>>   file(line): message
>>
>> format is problematic because a lot of editors rely on that to 
>> position the editor on the offending line.
>
> It's easy to detect whether the compiler is invoked in a TTY.
> Even if this turns out to be tricky, showing more helpful 
> information to the user with a special flag (e.g. `--explain` 
> or `--detailed`) is a way to go forward.

Being in an editor does not imply being in a TTY.

Atila


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