On Friday, 12 September 2025 at 21:46:51 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
On Friday, 12 September 2025 at 20:10:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Phobos code was legendary for being a standard library that
didn't make your head hurt when you read it. (If you've ever
tried reading the source code for Glibc, or the standard
library for almost any other language, really, you'll know
what I mean.) It was exemplary of how D code ought to be
written. It probably still is today to some extent, though
sadly over the years it has fallen into the mud and come out
hairy on multiple occasions, so it ain't as pretty as it used
to be anymore.)
It probably still is today to some extent
*loud silence*
Its probably time to raise some standards
Is it time to consider D 3.x.x, that takes the best of D,
discards the mistakes, the mud and the hair, so most well written
D 2.x.x programs still work?
Should it learn lessons from Rust, Zig, etc.
Should D follow Gleam, an Erlang variant in having functional
programming with pattern matching, deconstruction, etc?
And take from Zig multiple ways to allocate memory?
