D seems interesting, but...

[bearophile]

Jacob Carlborg:

> How should DMD detect if you're building a (dynamic) library? 
> Sure it can see that you're not using -lib or -shared but what 
> about separate complication?

What about the need to use a compiler switch if you are 
performing a separate compilation?

A related enhancement request that I'm asking for since years is: 
the compiler could define a compile-time constant (like 
is_main_module or something) as true if the module contains the 
main, and false otherwise. This allows to have a main() in each 
module. This is handy to have, it allows to compile&run modules 
both as normal modules to import, or to compile and run them as 
stand alone programs, like when you want a module to show a demo 
of its capabilities, or just run its unittests.

Bye,
bearophile