On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 19:19:09 UTC, A Guy With a
Question wrote:
It seems D's fast compile times are achieved by skipping
semantic checking and even parsing when it doesn't feel it's
needed. I strongly disagree with this decision. This could
leave complex dormant time bombs that break builds unexpectedly
and even accidentally. It's understandable in certain
situations where there is enough information, but the first
step to testing code, is first making sure it compiles...I
don't want the compiler making decisions on what is worthy to
compile. If I pass a d source file into it, I want to know if
it's valid. This is unfortunate. This might be a deal breaker
for me.
I'm very concerned of working with a language that, at minimum,
doesn't let me know if a file I passed in even contains valid
code.
