How Effectively Agents Write D

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 07/11/2026 10:13 AM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
> 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.

It is built in?

Both druntime and dub offer OOB experience with it.