D: Building DMD and Phobos on Linux

I’ve recently been having a deeper look into the D programming language, because writing a JIT on top of .NET turned out to be extremely hard without interfering with the .NET runtime. I didn’t quite want to use C, as that’s too low-level for the stuff I’m doing, and C++ is just broken. D seems [...]

The Usefulness of C++

Let’s kick the new year off with a rant about C++! Also, let me warn you in advance: I’m not going to distinguish between language and runtime in this post. I’m going to use ‘language’ as the general term for the programming language, its runtime, as well as supporting framework libraries. I’m going to get [...]