On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 05:59:07 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko
wrote:
D - ??? awesome what ? What do we have better then Scala?
Performance? NO.
BRandomAccessRanges makes our performance less then C/C++.
Clean and clever API in standard library? NO.
We are placing our Range API whenever possible including RNGs.
We have not a language standard for I/O. Half of Phobos is
outdated to language standards.
Best generics? NO.
Scala is more powerful.
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What do we have awesome? Where D is the best?
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D is awesome for low-level system libraries in betterC mode.
(and small text processing routines)
This will make D great in other fields.
while i mostly use D as a awesome high level language (with
mediocre libs, and an inconsistent stdlib) i also think that D
has an edge when it comes to building fast system level tools
that used to be written in c: microservices, datatabases etc.
however for that, as ilya mentioned it needs to be super user
friendly to compile down a single static object/binary with no
dependencies and a clear line on when phobos can/should/must be
used and when not (e.g. create a view on phobos documentation
that only shows things that work without druntime. add some
official docs on how to use it)
people turn to C to extend their language of choice because they
need speed in a very narrow area. if that becomes as easy (or
even easier, since there is dub!) as with C it would be a huge
win for D, because people would start to extend their stuff with
D. No other language is in a such good position as D, from what i
see not that much needs to be done to make that work.
i see a huge opportunity there
