Walter Bright Ports D To the Mac

jonniee writes "D is a programming language created by Walter Bright of C++ fame. D's focus is on combining the power and high performance of C/C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. And now he's ported it to the Macintosh. Quoting: '[Building a runtime library] exposed a lot of conditional compilation issues that had no case for OS X. I found that Linux has a bunch of API functions that are missing in OS X, like getline and getdelim, so some of the library functionality had to revert to more generic code for OS X. I had to be careful, because although many system macros had the same functionality and spelling, they had different expansions. Getting these wrong would cause some mysterious behavior, indeed.'"

Comments

Re:What?

[Zero__Kelvin]

"A Mac is a genuine Unix workstation that is much easier to administer, and has much better software and hardware support than Linux."

ROTFLMAO! I just learned something new! I was unaware that OS X runs on ALPHA, ARM, and the other 19 processor platforms that Linux supports.

"I can run basically every Linux/Unix application on my Mac, both command-line and GUI, while not having to worry about wireless networking drivers, printer support, power management / sleep support on my laptop, getting accelerated 3D drivers working, or any of the other minor hassles that are involved with setting up and maintaining a Linux install."

What you say is, of course, patently absurd. You are comparing a system already set up, with a bare bones system. None of MY customers worry about those things either, since they compare their already set up Linux system to an already set up Mac.

"Hell, if you ever spend two hours fighting with some weird issue on your Linux box, it's no longer saved you any money. "

Perhaps the most absurd statement you make, and that is saying a lot .

Re:THIS IS SLASHDOT!

[Zero__Kelvin]

You nickname is much better and far more apropos ;-)