On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:35:23 +0200, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Great!

Yep! Been there for years. Started with SVN, moved to hg (sharesource.org) and then finally to git/github. ;-)

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:43:50 +0200, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
> This is very interesting. We could use some dogfooding of the compiler, not to mention using a better language.

Oh lawdy, I couldn't bear writing tons of code in C++. It conjures up images of getting one's fingernails pulled with pliers. Now, I'm not one to praise D to the skies, but it certainly is a wholly different experience to write software in it.

> One question - do you see it possible to link some of the existing C++ implementation with some of the D stuff? That would help migration.

Do you mean linking the code in through a binary interface? It may certainly be possible, but the effort required to do this seems daunting. The code structures are not very similar to begin with. However, porting parts of dmdfe to D and integrating it with DIL appears to be more feasible. And even that would be a huge task. :-/

Thanks for taking interest.

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:28:10 +0200, Salih Dincer <salihdb@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Aziz tebrikler (congrat.), that's great...

Teşekkürler! ;-)

Okay, so I tested the Windows binary and it actually works. My build script used wine 1.5.13 to compile Tango and DIL. To me it's a pleasant surprise that it doesn't crash (considering that wine displayed some weird error message boxes when compiling Tango.)

Watch this link if you're interested in the most recent build(s) of DIL:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17101773/next/index.html

I will build the deb files in such a way that they can be installed in parallel to a final release (the binary will have a "-next"-suffix.)