On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 12:21:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 12:06:30 UTC, Martin
Tschierschke wrote:
If something is around the corner, you must know!
There are many corners. Some, like the corner of compiled
languages with automatic memory management and high level
features have moved a lot in the past few years (Swift and Go).
It is gone. There is no way for D to catch up with Swift and Go.
May be, I did not start to learn anything about these languages
yet,
so I just looked on the Wikipedia pages, and I am not convinced.
Why? Syntax not C compatible, but for me this is a very strong
argument, because everybody is defining his own similar elements
and after "learning" some
Languages
(Basic,Z80Asm,Pascal,Comal,Prolog,(x86Asm),C,C++,Perl,Php,Ruby
(RoR))
I am quite happy, that D offers a 'known' syntax.
And the opportunity to use it for scripting - compiling very fast
(#!-rdmd Execution).
By learning D, I can write a super fast web applications (vibe.d)
+
stand alone programs for any purpose and even do scripting tasks.
Is there any other language candidate offering the same?
The other corner, taken by C, C++ and now also Rust, moves a
lot slower and is in some areas incapable of moving. So I think
the current focus on interfacing with C++ is the right focus,
just keep focused on it. D needs to reach parity with common
C++ features and then do it better across the board.
Sounds right.
[...]
And a special second list, where people can vote, which topic
of D (language or environment) need to be improved most?
The historical challenge for D is a tendency to spread out.
Voting is no good, it takes away focus. Then you are back to
hunting down many corners, and D will remain one step behind.
The voting purpose is exactly to see what are the improvements
really needed, to get this focus. I think, it is not so useful,
that there are already min. 4 different DUB modules to access
MySQL/MariaDB).
