On Monday, 25 April 2016 at 21:20:04 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
Hello,
I've been busy with other things for about a year and would
like to ask some questions to catch up with latest
language/library additions in D. Looking through the change
logs simply appeared to be a bit tedious. My questions might
look a bit like asking pain point questions on purpose, but
it's really only about catching up with the status on some
issues:
Thanks for any answers.
Regards, Bienlein
To be frank, if you are using D for anything more than a
throwaway hobby project, I have to tell you, D is a failed
language, so stop wasting your time. The people who think that
one day D is going to replace or threaten C++, or for that matter
any other programming language, are delusional. No offense to
all those who have spent great amount of time contributing to D,
but people need to accept reality.
Five years ago Rust was not even a blip on the radar; however,
over the years it has gained steady momentum. It has a larger
and ever-growing users and contributors, as well as many PL
researchers that will ensure the language is future-proof for the
next 10-20 years and beyond. If you are running away from C++,
Rust should be your first choice as a systems programming
language. And with all the 'improvements' that C++ has received,
and will receive, there is really not much room left for D.
D also has many flaws, and they don't know how to fix them or
won't, specially not without breaking backward compatibility. If
you have a GC that is not optional, then you don't have a systems
programming language. They finally recognized that, and decided
to remove all GC from Phobos so that they case say "see, no GC."
Even the basic containers that are available in C++ are missing
in Phobos. Why? Because of allocators, which are in experimental
stage. How many years did that take? Over five years. Good
luck implementing some fancy container and hope you won't have to
rewrite it again in the future. Nowadays they're spending time
implementing stupid features that nobody cares about or needs.
And why DMD still uses its own back-end and not GCC or LLVM is
beyond me. I guess you look really good on your resume for
reinventing such a big wheel, but it's a foolish and arrogant
mistake that has not benefited D. And the idea of a foundation
was proposed many years ago, but I suppose back then people were
fantasizing about the day that Facebook would poor millions of
dollars into D, but that never happened. And Facebook's decision
to no longer host DConf was a heavy blow. The list goes on and
on and one...
