D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

[Eugene Wissner]

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 07:37:07 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Symptom: The compiler can't discard unused symbols at compile 
> time, and so it will spend a lot of time pointlessly optimising 
> code.
>
> Problem: D has no notion of symbol visibility.
>
> Possible Solution: Make all globals hidden by default unless 
> 'export'.
>
> Side effects: Everyone will be spending weeks to months fixing 
> their libraries in order to only mark what should be visible 
> outside the current compilation unit as 'export'.
>
> Benefits: Faster compile times, as in, in the most extreme 
> example I've built one project on github with gdc -O2 and build 
> time went from 120 seconds to just 3!
>
> Iain.

You can probably solve it like haskell does: Export all symbols 
by default.

So this module exports everything:

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module MyModule where

-- My code goes here

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this one not:

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module MyModule (symbol1, symbol2) where

-- My code goes here

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