D-Day for DMD is today!

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Tue Sep 1 08:48:40 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 15:02:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Seems to me that the most important advantage of moving to D is 
> to attract developers that are unfamiliar with C++, so using 
> selected parts of Phobos would make it a lot easier and fun for 
> them to contribute.
>
> I assume refactoring, high quality documentation and perhaps a 
> tutorial too, of course. Seems to me that lowering the "anxiety 
> threshold" could be an important move.

Exactly. I was surprised to find out I couldn't use Phobos in 
ddmd. Raw D is still more pleasant than programming in C++, but 
not nearly as much fun as writing normal D code.


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