Re: Kotlin Meta and CT programming vs D

2025-01-02 Thread Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 11:24:00 UTC, Dom DiSc wrote: On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 01:45:18 UTC, Jo Blow wrote: I think the real problem is that we've been building on systems that were build on very primitive ideas and so it's a constantly piling on of ad-hoc changes that may or

Re: Kotlin Meta and CT programming vs D

2024-12-24 Thread Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 23 December 2024 at 12:02:47 UTC, Renato Athaydes wrote: On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 06:04:33 UTC, Jo Blow wrote: But there have been several cases when I have asked others about trying to do certain "compile time" things in Kotlin that say it can't be done. It seems that there

Re: Kotlin Meta and CT programming vs D

2024-12-22 Thread Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 22 December 2024 at 10:56:26 UTC, Sergey wrote: On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 06:04:33 UTC, Jo Blow wrote: In any case, it was a great experience for the first month or so but then when I started looking for more complicated "D like" features such as CT/meta programming they don't

Re: Kotlin Meta and CT programming vs D

2024-12-21 Thread Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 22 December 2024 at 00:00:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 07:06:12PM +, Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] There really should be some push to get D integrated into some major platform. Maybe D could be the "JNI language" for the Androi

Re: Kotlin Meta and CT programming vs D

2024-12-21 Thread Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 11:13:38 UTC, Jürgen Reichmann wrote: Hi Jo, metaprogramming in Kotlin is possible by writing compiler plugins see https://kt.academy/article/ak-compiler-plugin or https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/kotlinconf2018/slides/5_Writing%20Your%20First%

Re: Kotlin Meta and CT programming vs D

2024-12-21 Thread Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 10:31:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 06:04:33AM +, Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] I'm wondering if it would be worth the effort to try to get D to work with android studio since it can compile to all those. E.g., writ

Kotlin Meta and CT programming vs D

2024-12-18 Thread Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn
I used to program in D heavily many years ago then stopped because, basically, the D ecosystem sucks. Amazing language but getting anything significant done was a PITA. Anyways, I moved to Kotlin/android to write some apps about 2 months ago and made great progress(I did more in 2 weeks than