On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 09:52:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I was reading Brad Roberts' bio before his upcoming talk today,
where he mentioned that he first heard of D because of blog
posts by Steve Yegge, when I remembered that it was likely one
of Steve Yegge's posts almost a decade ago that first brought D
to my attention, like this one:
"C++ does need to get replaced someday. It's just horrid, and
everyone knows it. However, there aren't very many people
trying to replace it, either. The only contenders I'm aware of
are Objective C and the D Programming Language.
D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the
next C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's
garbage collected (even though it can be disabled, and even
though Stroustroup himself is now advocating adding garbage
collection to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter
than the C++ programmers who won't look at his language, and he
has demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and
nearly as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon
just waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source
project.
But nobody ever accuses programmers of being wise."
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html
I wonder, how many others first heard of D through Steve's
posts, which were pretty popular back then?
i and almost all of turkish d users / wannabes did learn about d
through ali's initiative on a -back then- very popular turkish
programming forum. this was way before he started working on his
book. :)
yet, i did encounter steve's post was through HN much much later.
it was 2009 or 2010 i guess.
