Discussion: Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How

[Dukc]

On Wednesday, 23 November 2022 at 17:20:54 UTC, Kyle Ingraham 
wrote:
> Hi all. I came across this article on Hacker News: 
> https://www.yet-another-blog.com/porting_the_game_to_jai_part0/
>
> I’m interested in reading your thoughts on the ‘Why not D’ 
> section. Anyone have experiences that match the specific points 
> there? I haven’t experienced them but I also don’t debug on 
> Windows. I also find D’s documentation to be excellent.

That article has an interesting take. It's gripes with D aren't 
the usual ones, maybe debugging experience excluded.

D's documentation is good but not top-notch IMO. It's easy to 
browse and usually has examples, but still sometimes lacks detail 
with regards to corner cases. It's still better than most, so I 
find complaining about that surprising. Compare Phobos docs to 
[Nix standard API 
docs](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#preface) for 
instance. At least for me it's far easier to find what I want 
from Phobos docs, yet even NixPkgs documentation should probably 
be considered acceptable - at least it is correct and usually 
covers what you need when you look hard enough.

I agree with others here that he must have some problem with the 
compile time he could solve without switching the language. D 
usually compiles far faster than C++. It may be because of his 
memory usage, perhaps that leads to excessive disk swapping. 
Should be solvable too.