On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 02:53:56 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote:
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 02:48:11 UTC, codephantom
wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEKEIpM2zo
Thanks Ill watch it, but when I mentioned worse is better I
didn't had C++ in mind. I thought at new language who gains
traction lately but it is clearly inferior to D technically.
It was... Go.
I tried Go. I didn't like it. Syntax changes were not necessary,
and I got the feeling that the philosophy of Go, is that
programmers are incompetent and need training wheels. It wasn't
for me.
I looked at Rust, but never tried it, as I found the syntax to
pretty awful - and it reminded my too much of C++.
I looked at D, it looked nice. Syntax was familiar, and very C
like (which is the best kind of syntax IMHO). I decided to try
it.. and I just found it easy to work with...despite some bugs,
which you kinda of have to accept for now..but it's getting a lot
better.
Most importantly for me, is that it works on FreeBSD, otherwise
I'll lose interest immediately. I still use C though, as C is
still 'the' primary language on x..BSD, and will remains so for
the forseeable future.
But gee.. I can do things in D so easily and quickly compare to
C, and I don't feel like I giving up much for that convenience.
Compare that to running dotnet ... grrrr...you sit there just
waiting for the program to load.
So everyone comes to a new language with their own requirements.
Work out what your's are... or just play with it.. and enjoy what
it has to offer.
