On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 19:48:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 04:31:43 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
He mentions D, a bit dismissively.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724&cpage=1#comment-1912717
Eh, he parrots decade-old anti-D talking points about
non-technical, organizational issues and doesn't say anything
about the language itself, who knows if he's even tried it.
As for the the rest, the usual bunk from him, a fair amount of
random theorizing only to reach conclusions that many others
reached years ago: C has serious problems and more memory-safe
languages are aiming to replace it, while C++ doesn't have a
chance for the same reason it took off, it bakes in all of C's
problems and adds more on top.
He's basically just jumping on the same bandwagon that a lot of
people are already on, as it starts to pick up speed. Good for
him that he sees it picking up momentum and has jumped in
instead of being left behind clinging to the old tech, but no
big deal if he didn't.
I thought this was a much better post in that thread, especially
the last two paragraphs:
"Some may claim that the programming language isn’t the place to
look for help, but I disagree. If it can prevent language errors
in the first place (memory management, type systems) and help me
use available resources (concurrency), and deal with expected
failure (distribution) then I want it in the flow of the program
(my description of what should happen), not in some box bolted
onto the side. And it has to be efficient, because I’ve only a
few cycles to waste and no IO or memory.
So that’s where I’d look for action in the programming language
field – not to improve C, an imperfect solution to yesterday’s
problems; I want something that helps with apps that are big,
distributed, concurrent, and efficient because those are the more
important problems people are solving today and in the future."
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724&cpage=1#comment-1913062
To the extent microservices push in exactly this direction, D
needs to make an effort there.
