Why is D unpopular?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 01:12:38PM +0000, Adam D Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 13:04:24 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
> > One thing I've not understood is why Walter decided not to integrate
> > warp ... I don't remember a clear motivation of this choice
> 
> Using system headers means compatibility with the system preprocessor,
> which might have strange proprietary quirks.
> 
> I don't know how much of a problem that is in practice (the current
> importC guidelines are to just #define away half the header), but that
> is the reasoning behind it.
> 
> But you can still use the system preprocessor. There's an open PR to
> just shell out to it. Just this still leaves it less capable than
> dstep already is due to no work with the defined constants.
[...]

Walter's PR has been merged. So the latest dmd should be able to
preprocess .h files automatically now.

As for #define'd manifest constants, wouldn't it just be a matter of
adding a separate pass over the .h file to extract #define's that look
like they can be transformed into enum constants?  Shouldn't be *that*
hard to do, in theory anyway.


T

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