On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 08:58:47 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Meanwhile kids, the future generation of developers, keeps adopting the hardware and programming languages listed above,
D isn't useful for teaching kids programming. Waaaay too complicated. Most Arduino users, who build useful stuff, use C++.
But it is not a good strategy for D to become more like C++, too late. It would've been a good strategy 6 years ago to align D semantics with C++ and have full interop, but too late now.
D needs a feature-set that makes it attractive for people wanting to do high profile interactive stuff, like games, graphics editors, sound editors, high performance services. With useful optional GC and easy multithreading.
The current GC strategy is a dead end. No GC makes the language too much of a C++ with no real edge. D needs to offer something other languages do not, to offset the cost of learning the language complexities.
