The issue with D...

[Andre Pany]

On Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 08:26:50 UTC, Ecstatic Coder 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 February 2019 at 10:47:36 UTC, Laurent Tréguier 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 4 February 2019 at 23:28:51 UTC, Ben wrote:
>>> 1. That is a ... Tatum ... LINUX EXAMPLE, so its already not 
>>> platform agnostic path.
>>> 2. You think that running a hashbang example is a good 
>>> introduction to end users?
>>> 3. People lean the wrong way and are bypassing the dub 
>>> package manager
>>>
>>> Let me compare to a few languages:
>>>
>>> Go: import ( "net/http" ) ...
>>>
>>> Ready, set, go ...
>>>
>>> Crystal: require "http/server"
>>>
>>> Ready, set, go ...
>>
>> My 2 cents:
>> The comparison cith Go holds, but comparing D with Crystal is 
>> invalid if you are talking about Windows issues; since Crystal 
>> isn't natively available on Windows.
>
> Indeed, but the problem remains.
>
> Using D for server and GUI development should appear easy and 
> natural.
>
> The current vibe.d examples isn't conveying that, with all its 
> "black magic" comments.
>
> Contrarily to what D's "leadership" thinks, D has the potential 
> to become a very good competitor to Go and Crystal for server 
> development, as both of them are also performant garbage 
> collected languages.
>
> And with dlangui, developing connected desktop application is a 
> real pleasure.
>
> D should be promoted for what it does best, and should how 
> complex application can be made easily and efficiently with 
> simple code.

 From your post I am not sure whether you know the purpose of the 
comments in the vibe.d example.

The dub.sdl comment is a dub single package descriptor. You can 
save the lines to a file example.d and run it with command: dub 
example.d

With latest dub you can even save the file without the extension 
.d and if you are on a Linux system you can execute it just with 
command: ./example. That this the purpose of the shebang line.

I would not describe it as black magic but as very convenient way 
of calling D coding.
Vibe.d does here a very good job and just leverage features of 
posix os and features of the dub package manager.

Kind regards
Andre