What Julia Does Right

[Greggor]

On Friday, 9 December 2022 at 19:07:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/9/2022 6:11 AM, Paul Backus wrote:
>>> Resolving environments feels instant, as opposed to the 
>>> glacially slow Conda that Python offers. The global "general" 
>>> registry is downloaded as a single gzipped tarball, and read 
>>> directly from the zipped tarball, making registry updates way 
>>> faster than updating Cargo's crates.io.
>
> dmd could be enhanced to read source files from a zip or 
> tarball, so these wouldn't have to be expanded before 
> compilation.

I would love that, I usually only read the forums & lurk, I made 
an account just to say this!

In my case, I don't use dub, or any other package manager, I am a 
strong believer of your project should build without a internet 
connection. In a lot of my project what I do is have all my 
dependencies in tar files & the build script unpacks them and 
then builds them.

It would be lovely if I could skip the unpacking and directly 
feed them into dmd.

Not only that, this could also be an awesome way of easing 
distributing programs via src.

I would love it if I could do something like `dmd 
myproject.tar.xz -of=myproject`