dmd codegen improvements

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 01:54:45 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 17:14:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> It's been mentioned before that there really isn't much point 
>> in using C when you can use D. Even if you completely avoid 
>> the GC and the standard library, you're _still_ ahead of where 
>> you'd be with C, and you can call C functions trivially. So, 
>> you can definitely use D as a better C; you just lose out on a 
>> lot of cool stuff that D has to offer beyond that. But D has a 
>> lot to offer over C even without using any of that stuff.
>>
>> One of the first projects I used D for was back in college a 
>> number of years ago where I got sick of some of the issues I 
>> was having with C++ and went with D because it gave me stuff 
>> like array bounds checking. I was using very few of D's 
>> features (heck, D2 was quite young at that point, and I don't 
>> think that ranges had been introduced to Phobos yet at that 
>> point, so the standard library was seriously lacking anyway), 
>> but it was still easier to use D.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
>
> worthy of a quick blogpost sometime?  Laeeth.

My memory would be pretty sketchy on it at this point. I remember 
what the project was (it had to do with randomly generating 3D 
fractals in opengl for a graphics course), but that was back in 
2008, I think, and I couldn't really say much interesting about 
it beyond the fact that I was annoyed enough with C++ at the time 
to use D for the project. The only thing notable about it is that 
it was the first thing that I did in D that was actually supposed 
to do something rather than just messing around with the language.

- Jonathan M Davis