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		jibal 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Zig so cool? D and Nim both offer that. D has a tool, rdmd, that compiles (with caching) and runs a script written in D, so you write #!/usr/bin/env rdmd D code ... and run it as if it were an executable.

tmtvl 3 months ago [–]

If you want to write a code example on HN you can just indent it by 2 spaces and it'll work like you'd expect. For example:

  #!/usr/bin/env rdmd
  D code...

jibal 3 months ago | [–]

Thanks. I didn't catch that it didn't display correctly until it was too late to edit it.

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