On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 04:37:20 UTC, Puming wrote:
On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 21:46:45 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 00:34:43 UTC, Puming wrote:
Yes, rust is a more infantile language compared to D, but
people are already using them to create complicate
applications like browser!
Rust was designed to build Servo. The people building Servo
are the people building Rust. With all due respect to Rust, I
don't think that counts as endorsement of the language.
I didn't know about that. I don't actually know much about Rust
except the hype on hackernews :-)
But nonetheless, this indicates that a serious application like
a browser is a good driving force for a language to evolve.
I'm planning on tinkering with D over the next couple months on
an idea to replace the web browser, which I laid out on this
forum last year:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/tlpikltmamsfmqunn...@forum.dlang.org?page=3#post-dqddjhccpmxhgcssqtol:40forum.dlang.org
The browser has gotten way too complex, it's time to design away
much of that complexity. On the one hand, this might show D is a
good language to try new ideas, instead of simply implementing
old, obsolete ones. On the other hand, since it's much simpler,
it's not really going to push the language like an overly complex
browser might. ;)
