What are the worst parts of D?

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Sep 24 02:56:44 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:57:14 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 9/23/2014 11:24 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 24/09/14 06:31, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> But it is a bit unreasonable to expect
>>> large project maintainers to rebuild and check for bugs every 
>>> day. It's
>>> why we have a beta test program.
>>
>> The solution is to make it automatic.
>
>
> There's no such thing as automatic testing of someone's moving 
> target large project with another moving compiler target.

It doesn't exist because no one has created it yet :)

> Heck, the dmd release package build scripts break every single 
> release cycle.

Digger succeeds in building all D versions in the last few years.
It doesn't build a complete package like the packaging scripts,
but the process of just building the compiler and standard
library is fairly stable.


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