<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 December 2013 06:59, bearophile <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bearophileHUGS@lycos.com" target="_blank">bearophileHUGS@lycos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Rémy Mouëza:<div class="im"><br>
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There also have been several projects to make a D REPL,<br>
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I'd like a good REPL in the default distributions, because it's an useful tool to speed up coding, to test and try things, it's very useful if you want to use D for exploratory coding, and it's kind of standard if you want to use a language for interactive mathematics (iPython with matPlotLib, Julia language, Mathematica, Sage, Scala etc). I'd like Walter to comment on this.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>In my experience with vibe.d, it's a massive pain in the arse that it's compiled.</div><div>It seems to me that web dev involves squillions of micro-changes and tweaks, and it's bloody annoying to compile and reboot the server every time.</div>
<div>vibe.d apps should be compiled for deployment, but a JIT option while developing/tweaking/tuning would speed up development by about 934x.</div><div>I think that's the main hold-up for vibe.d compared to popular competition; the iteration time is just not good, but otherwise it's awesome.</div>
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