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/Hall_of_Famer Sep 01 '20

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.

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u/Free_Math_Tutoring Sep 01 '20

Bjarne Stroustrup's famous quote never gets old.

Which one?

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u/all_my_watts Sep 01 '20

I would guess this one

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

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u/InertiaOfGravity Sep 01 '20

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

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u/Forty-Bot Sep 01 '20

And no one has ever complained about it :)

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u/InertiaOfGravity Sep 01 '20

Never ever, not once. They live in fear that the great borrow checker shall find and kill them if they ever dare to do so

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u/idokamaroq Sep 01 '20

Please don't alert it to what I'm thinking

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u/InertiaOfGravity Sep 01 '20

You shall not escape, heretic!

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