My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Mon Feb 5 15:25:26 UTC 2018


On Monday, 5 February 2018 at 12:41:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2018-02-05 06:28, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> True, D cannot directly read .h files. There are tools, 
>> though, to convert C .h files to D.
>> 
>> I have thought about building this into D many times, 
>> especially since the Digital Mars C compiler is now available 
>> since it is Boost licensed.
>
> I did that as an experiment. Embedding DStep in the compiler 
> [1]. It got a mixed response. Some prefer to have it as a 
> separate tool, some prefer to have it built-in. DStep depends 
> on libclang, meaning the compiler would depend on libclang as 
> well.
>
> [1] https://forum.dlang.org/post/ks3kir$1ubq$1@digitalmars.com

I started working on something like this, but not integrated with 
the compiler. But also not like DStep.

Atila


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