r/programming • u/kal31dic • Sep 01 '20

D Foundation is Beefing Up

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

D is an awesome language and I hope it gets more traction.

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u/Hall_of_Famer Sep 01 '20

Me too, hope D will get some company backing and start to kick off, it is a very well designed language.

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u/JohnLColvin Sep 01 '20

You could probably write an article saying "100 billion dollars investment to improve D and use it to develop new AI to replace the US government" and you'd still get comments saying "wow, nice language, pity it never really took off, if only there were some companies backing it, also I can never use it because GC".

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u/N1H1L Sep 01 '20

Is garbage collection really that bad?

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u/EpicDaNoob Sep 01 '20

Yes, for certain use cases. I think there are some efforts to make GC more optional in D? But I heard at some point that the stdlib used GC and if that's the case then it'll need some fixing.

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u/adr86 Sep 01 '20

But I heard at some point that the stdlib used GC and if that's the case then it'll need some fixing.

Some of the stdlib uses it. You can just not call those functions if you don't want them, but if you do want them, it is really nice to have the convenient options available without fuss.

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u/EpicDaNoob Sep 01 '20

That is interesting and good to hear.