Feedback on Átila's Vision for D

[Gregor Mückl]

On Friday, 18 October 2019 at 08:28:22 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:
> I don't think that anybody has ever advertised Calypso as 
> anything remotely production ready. Like any 
> proof-concept/alpha software, it should be used only by people 
> coming the mindset that they *will* hit many bugs and they're 
> here to test the project, report the bugs and help its 
> development. If you're not one of those people you should 
> either wait for the project to become ready, or if it's 
> important enough for you to help in some other way.
>

Thank you for that clarification. I distinctly remember some 
messages here that implied that Calypso is usable. I don't recall 
who said that.

>> Semi-OT, I would also like to see the automatic C++ header 
>> generation integrated into DMD/LDC/GDC. This would complement 
>> C++-to-D interop nicely. There's a pull request for this 
>> feature on github that is slowly getting stale. I don't know 
>> if it's merely being ignored or whether there are remaining 
>> issues with it.
>
> That's point 4. on my list. When it will be ready it would be 
> part of all 3 compilers. As far as I know there's more work to 
> be done and when the author has free time he will need to push 
> forward before we can have his PR merged.

I was talking about https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9971, which 
would include that feature in the DMD frontend.

Either way, the software stack I work with needs C++ at the 
uppermost layer that ties everything together. I could write 
individual libraries within the stack in D, but I don't want to 
maintain separate interface definitions manually. This is why I'm 
so interested int getting this feature. I don't care quite as 
much for having C++ interfaces usable from D, although that would 
be a big one. Most languages require a C wrapper around C++ which 
makes this stuff even more cumbersome to use. I don't want to 
bother with anything like this. I even consider the C++ 
header/implementation file split cumbersome and slow to work with.