Why think unit tests should be in their own source code hierarchy instead of side-by-side

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Thursday, 22 March 2018 at 10:59:56 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
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Agreed on most counts though I’d say D simply produced a language 
without regard for build tools and large projects. Many small 
annoying things like version(unittest) stem from that fact.

In addition I think many things could easily take a ton of time 
to compile and run tests. ctRegex is one such monster. 
Inadvertently pluging that into somebody else unittest build 
would be murder ;)

It’s a given in some other languages that you need some library 
support to write tests (sometimes any tests) so they usually have 
cleancut prod dependecies and test dependencies. Our unitest 
being built-in practically forces the style.

> Atila