xll VS dmd

My guilty secret is to use Excel for my quick and dirty GUIs. I wrote a library to make that easy if you know C++. https://github.com/xlladdins/xll.

Please tell Satya to show the ancient C SDK a little love. I'd hate to see this disappear: https://github.com/xlladdins/xll#fp-data-type

If you want to throw an exception instead of calling `abort` you can use https://github.com/xlladdins/xll/blob/master/xll/ensure.h When running in a debugger it can break execution when it fails and you can inspect the values of relevant variables.

xll appears to be MIT according to the nuspec. xll_sqlite doesn't have a license, so the author hasn't given anybody to use it.

Excel. C++ can be embedded in Excel and used interacively. It is more useful than old-fashioned python programming. I wrote something that makes this easy; https://github.com/xlladdins/xll

This is quite clever, and probably a joke that I'm not getting, but the Excel C SDK lets you call C/C++ from Excel and vice versa. This is one of my bread and butter tools, and I like nice tools, so I wrote a C++ wrapper around the SDK. It also lets you embed C++ objects in Excel: https://github.com/xlladdins/xll

A C++ library that lets you embed C++ objects in Excel. https://github.com/xlladdins/xll.

Welcome to my world: https://github.com/xlladdins/xll

Here's the pipeline spitting out the same error as on my macbook did.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/actions/runs/8023469412/job/219...

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

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...

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.

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.