On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 10:08 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: […] > Having 3 different D compilers with different strengths and weaknesses spurs > improvements in all of them. When I was at GoingNative2013, it was pretty > obvious to me that the playful and friendly competition between gcc, clang, > and > vc has improved all three greatly.
As has been proved in many areas of life, having multiple players in a game validates the game. Having multiple compilers, books, IDEs etc. for D programming is a mark that D is player in the programming languages game. Sadly D is still not competing against C++ in the way it deserves. Of course C++ is now a niche language. The primary "war" just now is native vs. VM, and VM remains in the ascendency. Go and Rust are the "poster children" for native due to their backers. The questions is whether D should position itself in this "war". I say yes. There needs to be more books on D, and use of D in various areas. QtD, GtkD, (wxD?), D drivers for SQL, Mongo, Couch, Redis, Neo, Riak, etc. all need to be high quality and pushed via reports and talks at non-D conferences. Vibe.d is a huge possibility now that Node.js is losing it's "lustre" and Vert.x and Go are getting serious traction. (At least in the small start-ups arena.) D in GCC and D on LLVM are, for me, far more important than DMD, since they provide penetration into the market via the market leaders. D on Linux via GCC and LLVM, D on OX S via LLVM, (and on Windows, I suppose, via any route :-). The issue for me is to stop worrying about internal contemplative reflection on 10 years of D evolution, and get knowledge of the real-world use of D out there and in people's faces. Stop looking inward and start looking outward. This is the trick Go and Rust have picked up, albeit not as well as they could. D is a major player in the GCC and LLVM worlds, let's take this as read and exploit it for the future of high-quality, effective and pleasurable native code development. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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