On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 22:55:24 UTC, bioinfornatics
wrote:
On Saturday, 28 December 2013 at 11:13:55 UTC, Barry L. wrote:
Hello everyone, first post...
Just saw this:
http://joeduffyblog.com/2013/12/27/csharp-for-systems-programming/
D (and Rust) get a mention with this quote: "There are other
candidates early in their lives, too, most notably Rust and D.
But hey, my team works at Microsoft, where there is ample C#
talent and community just an arm’s length away."
They are any conclusion about this ?
they are 10 page and most part talk about D gc…
Thank you.
Microsoft might put together a great language for system
programming but if it is going to be used outside the Microsoft
world, then LLVM will be essential.
GCC has previously been used by processor vendors in order to
support languages like C/C++. LLVM is now gradually taking over
that part and I expect LLVM to become the compiler framework of
choice. The same is really valid for the D language, without LLVM
the D language will not live on.
I don't really know the plan from Microsoft here but I doubt that
they will release the source and support LLVM so I guess the wide
acceptance of this new language will be limited to Microsoft
development only. Then we might have people who will make an LLVM
implementation of M# by themselves, we'll see
