Re:The reference D compiler is now open source
by Too on Saturday April 08, 2017 @02:19AM
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Name another language + tooling ecosystem where you can do ALL of: * Perform automatic refactoring of a 100k+ LOC project and be confident that absolutely nothing breaks. * Reliable edit and continue in the debugger. * Fast incremental compile times. * Easily pull in third party libraries without messing with include-dirs, link-dirs and whatnot, and automatically get the documentation built in and ready for autocompletion.
I won't list all other things you can do but no other popular language even come close to the tooling of Java or C#. C and C++ has too many different build systems and too much lazy evaluated templates and typecasts for the IDEs to handle well. Python, Ruby, JS, PHP...well they are all dynamic so good luck with fancy IDE features.
Re:The reference D compiler is now open source
by jnordwick on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:34AM
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Erlang as some pretty dope tooling, but still Java has a much larger selection and some low-level tools that are just fantastic for performance (JMH is one of my favorites).
I won't list all other things you can do but no other popular language even come close to the tooling of Java or C#. C and C++ has too many different build systems and too much lazy evaluated templates and typecasts for the IDEs to handle well. Python, Ruby, JS, PHP...well they are all dynamic so good luck with fancy IDE features.