On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 16:52:10 UTC, bpr wrote:
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 16:43:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
If semicolons are such a terrible drain, there's always JS and
Python.
For someone who likes D, Nim (http://www.nim-lang.org) would be
better a choice for a language at the same level with Python
like syntax. Changing D surface syntax is an obvious
non-starter.
Or Crystal
https://crystal-lang.org/
It's Ruby syntax with some of the nice features you'd find in D.
It's only alpha at the moment and doesn't work on Windows.
The thing is that there is no way of telling how much D code
would break (including the compiler), if semicolons were removed
or optional. That's too big of a gamble for a purely aesthetic
change.
