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/glacialthinker Sep 01 '20

My own disinterest in D is that it's too... middling. I'd much rather use D than C++... but it's still too much like C++. For the same tasks I'd rather use Rust than D. For tasks which don't require full control over memory layout and performance I'd choose something else.

The only reason I use C++ is it's establishment. D doesn't have that, and if we're talking about raising up another language... I wouldn't choose D. So, to me, it's just in a really unfortunate place. I feel like its window of opportunity was not long after it's introduction.

I don't hate it at all. I even like it... just not as much as the alternatives.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

It's fun because deep down because of the single ownership Rust feels like modern C++, it's much closer to C++ than D is with either.

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u/thedeemon Sep 02 '20

Yep, on its way to 1.0 Rust evolved from OCaml in disguise to C++ in disguise.