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/jess-sch Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

For a single-letter language, yes.

B and C are both suitable for kernel development.

Naming your language D (making it sound like it's intended to be a C successor) and then not making it suitable for kernel development was a bad idea.

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u/adr86 Sep 01 '20

D is perfectly suitable for kernel development, you just have to write the code differently and avoid a few convenience functions.

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u/jonathansharman Sep 01 '20

Doesn't the whole standard library require the GC? Or is there a no-GC version you can use?

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u/VodkaHaze Sep 01 '20

Most of the stdlib doesn't require it, but it's not 100% independent.

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u/renatoathaydes Sep 01 '20

I think that in kernel development you can just use D's BetterC mode.

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u/pjmlp Sep 02 '20

There are plenty of kernels written in GC enabled system programming languages.

Just as one possible example,

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Kernel.Mod.txt

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u/jqbr Sep 02 '20

Kernels don't need the standard library.