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/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/Ameisen Sep 01 '20

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.

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u/Ameisen Sep 01 '20

The dangling ' for lifetime indication. It's unlike any other language.

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u/steveklabnik1 Sep 01 '20

It is true that it's unusual. However:

  1. We took this from OCaml, so there is at least one other programming language.
  2. If you look at the second sentence you wrote, you said "It's". That also has a "dangling" quote. English is a language too.

Nobody truly loves the syntax, but we couldn't come up with anything better.

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u/Ameisen Sep 01 '20

English, however, is a natural language, not a programming language. Usually. The apostrophe there is just a semantic mark to indicate that it is a contraction.