D easily overlooked?
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digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 20 09:12:30 PDT 2017
On Thursday, 20 July 2017 at 15:40:04 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
> After going back recently to good old Pascal. More specific the
> freepascal compiler combined with Visual Studio Code +
> Omnipascal, ... it felt just more easy.
>
> In a few days time after reading up all the details, i got
> myself a nice multithreaded http server build without using any
> standardized framework. Sure it is missing a lot of
> functionality but i felt more proud writing it in Pascal, then
> i did writing the same in D
>
> The easy to write cross platform Dlls. The more clean design to
> use those DLL loading without relying on dlsym all the time.
> The time wasted trying to figure that out in D to get it
> working correctly. *uch* ...
>
> While the language is indeed more "verbose" ( not that much ),
> the compiler does less checking, it just is more "fun". D feels
> more like work. Now it also helps that there is massive amount
> of more documentation for pascal out there, even if its old.
> At the same Pascal compiles in 0.1 second, give me the speed
> similar(actually faster) than D, cross platform support, no
> need to mess with different compiler ( dmd for compile, ldc for
> speed ). Its even more TTD then D :)
>
> Windows: Download, install, runs. It integrates perfectly with
> the Visual Studio Code plugin. Linux a simple apt-get command.
> No need to download a deb or run a shell script.
>
i did the same, but use for windows programs AWD Modula. its
free, compiles fast and is used commercially.
i QUIT on D, since you can't install and use, for all the reasons
you describe. a consequence for me was to warn people at work to
use it.
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