On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 09:25:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
That's wonderfully undefined. A pragmatic compiled language can
be anything from ATS to compiled Python.
If you want to know what D is in details, see dlang.org for
language spec.
Static analysis is a focus and believed to be done with
relatively simple and clean language rules that ensure correct
results.
Which D is not.
If one could design a language with just four words, it would be
lisp :)
Current direction seems to be explicit
structs+destructors+allocators.
I don't see this. Allocators is purely a library feature and is
not designed to be explicit either.
Buf if that is right then:
- Get rid of the dichotomy between classes and structs, having
syntactically different pointers for classes without any
semantic significance is rather annoying.
Semantic significance is that classes are polymorphic and hence
reference types, structs are value types.
- Get rid of all gc-dependent language features.
@nogc
- Add language features that enables proper custom pointers.
Phobos implements custom pointers.
