Hello everyone I am a Meson build system user and I am new to the D language, just wondering if there are compiler flags that I should add, unit testing frameworks, any good practices I can follow and or anything like that also some resources would be helpful thanks. (:

On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 19:52:23 UTC, Mike Brockus wrote:
> Hello everyone I am a Meson build system user and I am new to the D language, just wondering if there are compiler flags that I should add, unit testing frameworks, any good practices I can follow and or anything like that also some resources would be helpful thanks. (:

Perhaps a good place to start is examining existing D projects that use Meson - for example mir-algorithm: https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm/blob/master/meson.build.

On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 19:52:23 UTC, Mike Brockus wrote:
> Hello everyone I am a Meson build system user and I am new to the D language, just wondering if there are compiler flags that I should add, unit testing frameworks, any good practices I can follow and or anything like that also some resources would be helpful thanks. (:

While I heard Meson is working for D, the prefered choice, in case you have D only applications/libraries is Dub.

If you also want build to build C/C++ together with D, Meson or other build systems are preferable.

What is your use case?

Kind regards
Andre

On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 19:52:23 UTC, Mike Brockus wrote:
> Hello everyone I am a Meson build system user and I am new to the D language, just wondering if there are compiler flags that I should add, unit testing frameworks, any good practices I can follow and or anything like that also some resources would be helpful thanks. (:

D has built in unittests: https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/unittesting

as for build systems, dub is the official one for D.

On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 10:28:26 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 19:52:23 UTC, Mike Brockus wrote:
>> Hello everyone I am a Meson build system user and I am new to the D language, just wondering if there are compiler flags that I should add, unit testing frameworks, any good practices I can follow and or anything like that also some resources would be helpful thanks. (:
>
> While I heard Meson is working for D, the prefered choice, in case you have D only applications/libraries is Dub.
>
> If you also want build to build C/C++ together with D, Meson or other build systems are preferable.
>
> What is your use case?
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

I did have a particular use case yet as I am just discovering the capabilities of D and I may
say that I appreciate that it looks like both Python and C mixed into one allegiant
programming language which makes it easy for me to learn.