Feedback on Átila's Vision for D

[Atila Neves]

On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at 00:33:20 UTC, neikeq wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 October 2019 at 13:09:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/
>
> The second paragraph of 'Make D the default implementation 
> language' lacks an example for those who are not familiar with 
> it. How can D, compared to its contenders, make the code 
> 'automagically' callable from other languages? A reference to 
> an existing library could do.

https://github.com/symmetryinvestments/autowrap

> Regarding interop with C++, what are your thoughts on tools 
> like Calypso? It supports most C++ features, including advanced 
> stuff like template instantiation, and it seems to be under 
> active development: https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso

My thoughts are the same as the ones I described in my DConf 2019 
talk, namely that convincing a team wary of changing over to D 
that they should use a forked version of a compiler that's not 
even the reference one would go down like a lead balloon.

If you're in charge, can mandate using Calypso and it works for 
you, great! But in that case you're likely to be less averse to 
change than the average programmer and we "have you" already. We 
want to convince "regular folk".

> I understand the main motivation behind the interpreter is fast 
> iteration times. Is the idea to have an interpreter that can 
> run entire applications?

Yes.