On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 at 16:32:50 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:57:08AM +0000, Patrick Schluter via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Monday, 1 January 2018 at 18:32:37 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
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> I am just going to share my thoughts a little. Github, in my
> opinion, is hype and even though I depend on it today, I am
> trying to decrease that dependency. We should build a world
> that is not dependent on single companies. I am not
> downplaying what github has done for us (I am one of the
> early users) - but they have just become a little too
> important for free software to be comfortable. The github
> issue tracker is wanting anyway.
>
> D is a great language. I just spent 6 months in C++ and the
> last month worked on a D multi-threaded project again. I'll
> blog about this soon, but the short of it is that I am very
> grateful to Walter, Andrei, Kai, Ian, Johan and others for
> creating a language that fits our needs so well! D software
> is doing critical work around the world every second. D is
> probably not a language for the hype community - let them
> have Go and Rust. I honestly don't care. And D should not
> care. Great programmers gyrate to powerful languages and
> toolboxes. I love I can read the source code of Phobos and
> understand it. I love I get low level access to stack
> variables. I love I can manipulate the heap in any way I
> want. I love we can target GPU and KNL. I love we have Maybe
> even though it is called Nullable...
>
> A great programmer can handle D fine. As it is. Let's not
> try to be the next hype. Let's keep writing great software.
>
+10000
+10000 * 2
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To clarify, I too like D. It is certainly very pleasant to work
with. This post wasn't about GitHub issues vs Bugzilla. That was
a get-off-at-a-tangent topic. This post is about what's needed
for a more mature D; mature enough for extremely big companies to
build bigger and more critical parts of their tech stacks in D
(this *is* a huge investment)! The goal is never about making D a
hype language.
I agree, a great programmer can handle anything, not just D as it
is, but that's never an excuse to be complacent, it's never an
excuse not aim for a higher quality in the D compiler and the
infrastructure. Hope you understand.
Thanks.
