D demoscene compo

[Daniel Keep]

ponce wrote:
> Hi D lovers,
> 
> We managed to win the demo compo at the Numerica Artparty #2 with a D demo entry.
> http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52780
> 
> Source code will be released soon under the WTFPL because some sceners were interested in D.

Awesome!  Congratulations!

> As I understood, C++ is usually prefered by demosceners over D because of supposed "performance problems" with D, which are in fact negligible regarding the productivity gain.
> 
> Though, despite the usual pleasure to use D we encounter several compiler bugs in dmd 1.040. These bugs were somewhat random and would disappear during a 2nd compiling attempt :
> - frozen compiler (often)

The only times I've ever had this happen to me, it was the linker that
had died.

> - circular dependencies (less often)
> - I think debug{...} directive would not compile despite -debug switch
> 
> Thanks for the good work and for this near-perfect language ^^

Looking forward to the release.  :)

  -- Daniel