Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

[Brad Anderson]

On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 23:40:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/25/14, 3:22 AM, bearophile wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1yts5n/facebook_open_sources_flint_a_c_linter_written_in/
>>>
>>
>> An interesting comment from Reddit:
>>
>> klusark>I've been trying to build this for the past hour. It 
>> requires
>> folly. folly requires some "double-conversion" library, but 
>> you can't
>> use the default version, you have to build it with scripts 
>> from folly's
>> source. After I finally get folly to get past configure stage 
>> I get some
>> random python error in one of the build scripts. I just gave 
>> up at this
>> point. I'm sure I could get it working, but the time isn't 
>> worth it.<
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> Ironically that's for the obsoleted C++ program. The D program 
> is trivial to build.
>
> Andrei

Somewhat related, what ideas in Folly do you think we should 
borrow for Phobos?

It seems like there is a lot of nice stuff in there: 
https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Overview.md