D is coming to a town near you

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Thursday, 21 February 2013 at 17:02:06 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> 21-Feb-2013 12:48, Rikki Cattermole пишет:
>> On Thursday, 21 February 2013 at 00:57:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 01:55:00AM +0100, Rob T wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 21 February 2013 at 00:48:50 UTC, John Colvin 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Yes. Shared Libraries Please.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Thank you.
>>>> >
>>>> >+1
>>>> >
>>>> >It's the most important issue for me. Particular feature 
>>>> >bugs >can
>>>> >be worked around, lack of shared library support is
>>>> >>insurmountable
>>>> >for many applications.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it's a major barrier towards adoption in a production
>>>> environment. Walter said it's now a priority, so I cross the 
>>>> fingers
>>>> and hope.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Better yet, maybe more of us should start delving into DMD's 
>>> code...
>>> Currently only a small number of people really understand the 
>>> compiler,
>>> which has a rather low bus factor. We need to increase that 
>>> (not only to
>>> improve the bus factor, but also so that more people are 
>>> aware of
>>> compiler issues and hopefully how to fix them).
>>>
>>>
>>> T
>> I just want to say, as I have only worked in D for ~6 months 
>> the usage
>> of Optilink is a real pain.
>
> Checkout this alternative linker:
> ftp://ftp.styx.cabel.net/pub/UniLink/
>
> The only issue is that it converts debug info to some other 
> format compatible with Borland's tools (TDS?).
>
>> Couple of days ago I took a strong look at removing 64bit only 
>> code from
>> Coff support and allowing it to compile 32bit.
>> I failed yes.
>> But I definitely will take another look into this.
>> Hopefully learn wayy more of how it works!

Been there tried that. Wasn't terribly happy with it.
The removal of 64bit code generation in coff format isn't a 
killer for me.
But it does make it harder. I can make do without it as I really 
only want my apps to be running on newer i5+ gear.
Its more of something to learn the compiler and help the 
community out a bit. Since I know that there will be others that 
would think this is a killer for not using D.