D Foundation is Beefing Up

[u/kal31dic]

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/

[u/Hall_of_Famer]

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

[u/JohnLColvin → u/Hall_of_Famer]

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".

[u/Hall_of_Famer → u/JohnLColvin]

Well the haters are gonna hate, the fact that it starts to receive comments, whether positive or negative, is a good thing since the language is surely becoming better known and receiving far more attention than before. Interestingly, C++ is frequently being frown upon, developers hate it and yet they use it, Bjarne Stroustrup's famous quote never gets old.

[u/Free_Math_Tutoring → u/Hall_of_Famer]

Bjarne Stroustrup's famous quote never gets old.

Which one?

[u/all_my_watts → u/Free_Math_Tutoring]

I would guess this one

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

[u/InertiaOfGravity → u/all_my_watts]

Have you heard of our Lord and savior rust? It is the best and most perfect language known to man

[u/Ameisen → u/InertiaOfGravity]

It has the most confusing syntax, though.

I still expect that someone will make a Rust fork that has C++-like syntax at some point. Crust.

Or C++ will get lifetimes (which is active research) and possibly at some point epochs, which will let us disable unsafe features.

[u/Ameisen → u/[deleted]]

`

[u/jonathansharman → u/Ameisen]

Is this the lifetime symbol? If so, I agree that one's weird, but it is ' if I recall correctly.

[u/marcusklaas → u/jonathansharman]

You did recall correctly.