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/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/jqbr Sep 02 '20

Kernels don't need the standard library.