On 8/22/2018 4:01 AM, Mihails wrote:
> In my opinion, this functionality _should_ be part of compiler itself, similar to .di generation.

This is not a bad idea.

On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 11:01:02 UTC, Mihails wrote:
> https://gitlab.com/mihails.strasuns/dtoh
>
> Tool to grab all `extern(C)` declarations in a D module and generate C header file based on it. Partially addresses https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9285 but is intended to be much more simple (no C++, no human-readable emphasis).
> [...]

This is all very nice. I agree that this kind of thing should be a part of the compiler, but I think it should be a compiler plugin. If dmd had compiler plugins, I think stuff like this and `dpp` would be much nicer to use.

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 10:09:07 UTC, Uknown wrote:

> This is all very nice. I agree that this kind of thing should be a part of the compiler, but I think it should be a compiler plugin. If dmd had compiler plugins, I think stuff like this and `dpp` would be much nicer to use.

I agree.  We also need compiler plugins for things like this: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6961

Mike

On 2018-08-24 12:09, Uknown wrote:

> This is all very nice. I agree that this kind of thing should be a part of the compiler, but I think it should be a compiler plugin. If dmd had compiler plugins, I think stuff like this and `dpp` would be much nicer to use.

We have the front end available as a library, but not support for plugins.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 26/08/2018 7:08 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2018-08-24 12:09, Uknown wrote:
> 
>> This is all very nice. I agree that this kind of thing should be a part of the compiler, but I think it should be a compiler plugin. If dmd had compiler plugins, I think stuff like this and `dpp` would be much nicer to use.
> 
> We have the front end available as a library, but not support for plugins.

Even though it is available, you won't be using it.

Between memory leaks and not-reusable, it aren't an option.

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 02:40, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/22/2018 4:01 AM, Mihails wrote:
> > In my opinion, this functionality _should_ be part of compiler itself, similar to .di generation.
>
> This is not a bad idea.

This, please!