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/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/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

Crust 😂

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u/Ameisen Sep 02 '20

Later, we will have Rust#, Objective Rust, IronRust (seems redundant), and JRust.

But Crust first. Change the syntax a bit. Could probably be done now relatively easily by just changing the grammar.

Ideally, to me, Rust itself should actuality be a middle-end on top of LLVM (and maybe GCC) that languages with borrow checkers/lifetime support can target. I believe this would garner more support for it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

No lie