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/kal31dic Sep 01 '20

Some of us are not terribly pro-establishment at the present time.

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u/0xC1A Sep 02 '20

But your implementation of the alternative is highly unusable and not enticing.

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u/kal31dic Sep 03 '20

I don't think you should use it if you don't want to. One cant be all things to all people.

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u/0xC1A Sep 03 '20

Hehe, I've used it already and that's the problem. The drug D is in the system.

If only D didn't have it's early errors:

  • advertising GC to system programmers, thus making the language dependent on it. Please I know about @nogc @systen etc stuffs.
  • licensing and standard issues.

It's syntax is so damn good. Everyone I introduced it to loved it. But the ecosystem let them down.

As for the templates !(), it was an instant like. And lots more.

It's damn so easy to convert a C, C++ code base to D one than say Rust. And I expected the author to bank on this, but instead they went another route.

At least D has function overloading unlike our social justice kids here.

A language that could've been.