On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 20:08:15 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 18:46:12 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
One niche I could see D establishing some popularity is in
GNU/Linux GTK desktop apps. Especially now that GDC will be
part of GCC.
With GNOME in the process of adopting Rust, I don't have big
hopes for it.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Rust2017
https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Rust2017-2
With Rust's extra complexity (over D) of ownership/borrowing,
lifetimes, and no GC, although we may currently see a push for
more Rust in Gnome for system-level code, I think D may beat it
for writing *applications*.
I'm planning on learning more D, then trying out GtkD to see how
it compares with Python + PyGObject for some little apps.
