For example:

int[] pointers; //this is an array containing pointers

while(*pointers[3].length > x)

//too lazy to write anymore, so would this code work or not

I had a little downtime this week so I decided to have yet another go at getting D to work. After all the frustration of the last three attempts I decided to try a new approach. I would use BetterC and ImportC to deal with system libraries.

This progressed well enough, I made a C file that included the headers I wanted, ran it through the preprocessor. That produced something that looked very complete. I setup a simple project for D, one file with a main function that imported the preprocessed file.

And of course it doesn't work. No type specifier for parameter for a header file that works absolutely fine in C. My best guess is that importC does not handle some part of the syntax in that header file. A flaw that makes it kind of pointless, a thing called ImportC which fails to import C.

So maybe I'll have another go in a few weeks but I'm struggling to see what I might try differently next time. Its been quite an adventure but I'm coming to the conclusion that D just isn't a generally usable language. I've never have I had such a frustrating time building a simple program and I never even got to running or debugging. Who knows what extra obstacles that might have provided.

DLLM is a local agentic LLM written in the D programming language and built directly on llama.cpp. This blog post goes into some of the D features used to make it work.

This Language Looks Hot but I am Needing to Compile to Web. Also after Looking at this Language, My Comment is that it should be as Popular as Rust.