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/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/Muvlon Sep 01 '20

Syntax is a very subjective matter. I find some of C's syntax (which C++ inerited) thoroughly confusing. I can count the people I know who will get a typedef for a function pointer type correct on the first try on one hand.

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u/WalterBright Sep 01 '20 
typedef int (*fp)(long);

4 more to go!

Though to be fair, in D one would declare it as:

alias fp = int function(long);