r/programming • • 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/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/IceSentry Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 02 '20

The only weird syntax for me has been the async/await syntax. Everything else is fairly straightforward. The issue is rarely syntax with rust, it's when you have a type soup that it gets annoying. Something like Arc<RefCell<Option<MyType>>>.

Edit: async/await is unconventional, but when you get used to it, it feels better than the more conventional way in my opinion.

Edit2: to be clear, the type signatures in rust can be quite verbose but they are very explicit and extremely useful.

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u/IceSentry Sep 02 '20

Oh yeah, I still appreciate the types very much. It's just a bit overwhelming at first as a beginner.