On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 09:02:13 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 06:16:18 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
D2 is pretty much C++ with a Boehm collector attached to it.
So to get traction D has to improve on that model
significantly OR change direction completely.
You speak like someone who's read the spec, but doesn't
actually use the product. If you can put your theoretical mind
on hold for a few days and actually immerse yourself in the
language and its idioms for practical use*, you'd see that D
has a large feature-overlap with to up-to-date C++, but often
feels very different in practice. Maybe take some of the time
you spend writing theoretically motivated forum posts and turn
it in to some practical experience?
P.S. forgive me if I'm wrong and you have done a bunch of
serious coding in D, it just seemed unlikely seeing as you
never seem to make specific practical complaints with example
code, it's always an overarching principle or grand direction
problem.
I have no idea what experience with D Ola really has, but I
wouldn't have expected anyone to say that D2 is C++ with a
garbage collector. The GC is a such a small part of D, and there
are so many features that it has that either C++ doesn't or that
it's improved considerably that it really doesn't make sense to
try and claim that C++ and D are that similar. C++11 and 14 have
closed the gap, but the two are still quite distinct. That
doesn't necessarily mean that D is better in all cases, but D is
definitely not just C++ with a GC.
- Jonathan M Davis
