How Effectively Agents Write D

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Friday, 6 November 2026 at 20:18:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 6 November 2026 at 19:15:29 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
> wrote:
>> Can it be the default in a unit test build though?
>
> OpenD made it the default in all builds, at first the plan was 
> only in unittest, but that causes link errors with 
> druntime/phobos which is built without it.
>
> Only making it the default across the board actually made it 
> work reliably. I didn't notice executable bloat but tbh i 
> wasn't looking either.
>
> (and it is a big improvement, that plus a few tweaks i made to 
> the stacktrace print both help a lot. see more here:
>
> https://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-arsd/Blog.Posted_2025_05_26.html#opend-recent-changes
>
> )

Makes sense. There are gaps of sometimes months where I don't 
code in D, and everytime I come back I get annoyed by having to 
setup small things like a unit test runner. I would love the day 
when it's built-in.