D Language Foundation January 2024 Monthly Meeting Summary

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On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 13:23:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for January 2024 
> was held on Friday the 12th. There were two things of 
> particular note about this meeting.
>
> [...]

I have some things to feedback on those points

### Item 6
I had done my DIP thinking mostly about intermediate values on 
mixin template. That would make the value not included in mixin 
template, but yes, static foreach also needs that, so a good 
solution would be one that solves them both.


### Item 7
Redub is a tool that is basically a dub clone which improves what 
dub is not doing very smartly: building. Recently I've done a 
simple, yet major UX improvement: if dmd is not found, it tries 
ldc.

But the apex of UX I've done is inside my engine, but I've shared 
a plenty of times: build selector.

This tool is focused into:

All the items ending with a `*` are optionally done by the user.

- Downloads a D compiler if none is found on the user system
- Downloads and installs git [only on Windows that is automatic. 
Other systems it shows an error requiring that to be done]
- [Windows] - Installs MSVC and vcruntime so D is able to build 
it on systems that doesn't have this option (I needed that when 
running with a VM).
- Download Android SDK/NDK [based on the user system], with the 
supported LDC compiler and sets up the DFLAGS required to build 
for Android.*
- Sets up a custom D runtime which supports building to WASM, 
sets up the DFLAGS required to build it. May also get a supported 
compiler.*
- Sets the DFLAGS required for being able to build for iOS.*

### Item 8

There was a project which is basically rdmd but faster out there, 
done by Jonathan Marler.
- https://github.com/dragon-lang/rund
Sometime ago I thought about just pushing to d tools, but since 
no one cared about, I simply abandoned the idea, but there it is: