ldc
dmd
| ldc | dmd | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 147 | |
| 1,158 | 2,893 | |
| 0.3% | 0.4% | |
| 9.9 | 9.9 | |
| 1 day ago | 2 days ago | |
| D | D | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Boost Software License 1.0 |
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ldc
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Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?
D has 3 main compiler implementations. One, LDC, is based on LLVM: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
GDC is based on GCC: https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdc
DMD is stand-alone: https://github.com/dlang/dmd
- LDC 1.32.0 released
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Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC
What I don't like about LDC, is you have to install the entire Visual Studio if you want a static build [1]. Contrast this with Go, Nim, Rust, Zig and others, that don't put this burden developers. Is DMD any different in this regard?
1. https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4047
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RISC-V based Single Board Computers are getting there
Glad to hear that you'd like to try! You can report issues at https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages
ldc refers to the LLVM-based D Compiler: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
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I've had .net explained to me several times over the years. I still don't fully understand what it is.
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "ldc"
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Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One
This benchmark puts it at the top near Racket and C++ using the ldc2 LLVM backend. C++ is still 50% faster though in this single case.
- Why do D builds are so heavy?
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Has anyone successfully built LDC2 or other D compiler for iOS?
Apparently https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases
dmd
- A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
- D2 Playground
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DMD Compiler as a Library: A Call to Arms
Here's the pipeline spitting out the same error as on my macbook did.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/actions/runs/8023469412/job/219...
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My favourite Git commit (2019)
Not completely on topic (if you read TFA) but my favorite Git commit is by compiler badass and HN frequenter, where he checks in an entire C compiler to the D language repo:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102584
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The C Bounded Model Checker: Criminally Underused
A new generated code alone is 4000 lines long [1]. The actual code added is just 2000 lines, and some are used to pay debts, I mean, to make a proper code generator (which can be alternatively written in a simpler scripting langauge). In any case it is never comparable to the entier C parser proper.
[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15307/files#diff-3677bcc89...
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OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
D is completely opensource already (https://github.com/dlang/dmd). The "open" of OpenD is just ADR saying that OpenD will be more open to new language features than D has historically been.
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The OpenD Programming Language (fork of D)
The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd
But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md
However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.
Given D already has so many feature, I find that to be a good thing , to be honest, by not everyone agrees, of course.
- Odin Programming Language
- D Programming Language
What are some alternatives?
dextool - Suite of C/C++ tooling built on LLVM/Clang
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
vox - Vox language compiler. AOT / JIT / Linker. Zero dependencies
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
dpp - Directly include C headers in D source code
spasm - Write single page applications in D that compile to webassembly
Odin - Odin Programming Language
druntime - Low level runtime library for the D programming language
llvm-project - The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).