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Re:Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and comp... by qznc on Monday May 10, 2021 @07:14AM (#27104673)
Is there a comparison with the other approaches, like htod? The PR describes them but does not say why this is better.
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Re:Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and comp... by WalterBright on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:10PM (#27109615)
I've found over and over that building something seamlessly into the compiler is transformative, easily a factor of 10 in adoption of it.

The obvious examples are Ddoc, the builtin documentation generator, and unittest, the builtin unit tester.

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