On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 00:14:40 UTC, IM wrote:
- D is unnecessarily a huge language. I remember in DConf 2014,
Scott Meyers gave a talk about the last thing D needs, which is
a guy like him writing a lot of books covering the many
subtleties of the language. However, it seems that the D
community went ahead and created exactly this language!
btw. I found this interesting article from Rob Pike (golang).
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html
He discusses the reasons why C++ developers are *not* flocking to
Go...which interestingly, is the very opposite with regards to D
(well 'flocking' might be a slight over exaggeration ;-)
Neither (Go's) 'unnecessarily small philosophy', or (C++'s)
'unnecessarily huge philosophy' are good design philosophies. Go
programmers will eventually look for 'more', and C++ programmers
will continue to look for 'less'.
"When all the forces acting upon an object balance each other,
the object will be at equilibrium."
