Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 03:40:44 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2013-09-01 02:05:39 +0000, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> said:
>
> I'm not using D anymore. I realized that with the time required 
> to maintain the toolset (including installer and Xcode plugin) 
> plus the time it'd take to make the language suitable to my 
> needs (Objective-C integration, perhaps ARM support for iOS), 
> all that by itself would probably be more than one full-time 
> job. As all this meta-work would seriously get in the way of my 
> actual work, I let it go. I'm not regretting that move.
>
> So I'm no longer using D, but I'm still hanging around here 
> from time to time because there's always something interesting 
> to read.

That's a pity, but I can understand: actually I'm relaying in 
calling Objective-C runtime functionality directly, having 
wrapped the *very-minimum* Cocoa things that I need for our 
projects...

But the reality is that it's simply not feasible to use D for OSX 
applications apart from sticking with the posix/bsd face of the 
system, so one of the big three OS is out.

I would also add that actually I'm not able to debug on OSX, and 
that's simply something that it's a show stopper for my 
colleague: the best results are coming from lldb, with decent 
stack trace and, alas I can also set breakpoints, but I'm not 
able to print any local at all.

In all the tree platform, at least the debugger, as set of patch, 
as documentation in the main site (not in the wiki!), as support 
in the backend, should be the priority number one, in my opinion.

- Paolo Invernizzi