Want to call C from Python? Use D

Re:Want to call C from Python? Use D by JNRowe on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @11:14AM (#22366814)

My own pet peeve about D is the lack of local documentation. If I install my system's compiler packages¹ I receive basically no documentation at all. That is a huge difference to the experience with nim/rustc/go/$others which all provide a nice fat $lang-doc package in their Suggests field, and all of those contain full standard library docs/tutorials/etc.

1. gdc or ldc on Debian. The experience /may/ be different with the dmd repositories, but being external they're of less interest to me.

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Re:Want to call C from Python? Use D by WalterBright on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:37PM (#22368534)

D comes with an interesting utility called `dman`. Run it from the command line and as an argument give it a D topic and it'll open a browser on the topic.

    dman dman

will, of course, open the browser on a page about dman.

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Re:Want to call C from Python? Use D by JNRowe on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:11AM (#22373990)

Which, as I noted, is still a very different experience from go/nim/rust in Debian. It wasn't a pet peeve about no documentation, it is about how I can interact with it compared to to other languages.

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Re:Want to call C from Python? Use D by alphaglosined on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @11:39AM (#22367144)

It is provided by dmd as part of the download.

You can also get soft copies (i.e. mobi, pdf) and the docs as part of the d-apt repository for debian.

Depending on the nature of distribution it is probably just in a different package (or the package maintainer needs yelling at).

https://d-apt.sourceforge.io

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Re:Want to call C from Python? Use D by JNRowe on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:50PM (#22367991)

> It is provided by dmd as part of the download.

Which leads me to wonder why we don't have dmd{,-doc} in Debian now, given it has been ~3 years since the compiler was open sourced. I can't even find an ITP in a quick search :/

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Re:Want to call C from Python? Use D by WalterBright on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:38PM (#22368554)

D command line tools have a `-man` switch which will open the browser on the manual for the tool, such as:

    dmd -man

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Re:Want to call C from Python? Use D by dguaraglia on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:13PM (#22367573)

I'd recommend using Dash (on Os X) or Zeal (Linux and Windows) if you want to have an easily browseable local version of the docs.

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