On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 12:07:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
I've only been programming since 1983 so I had the benefit of
high level languages like BBC BASIC, C, a Forth I wrote myself,
and Modula 3. And although I had to write a disassembler at
least I has assemblers built in. Programming using a hex
keypad is not that satisfying after a while. It takes a long
time to develop a language, its ecosystem and community.
Hear, hear!
Even though some languages like Julia, Rust and Go are much
better funded than D - and their creators have excellent taste in
different ways - they still have to go through similar
evolutionary steps. There is no fast path. Whatever design
decision you make, you always end up fixes bugs and corner cases.
I was amazed how behind Rust's debugger support was last year (I
witnessed a talk at FOSDEM). They are catching up, but it just
goes to show...
One thing I want to add that we ought to be appreciative of the
work people put in - much of it in their spare time. I wonder if
W&A and others sometimes despair for the lack of appreciation
they get. Guido van Rossum burning out (W, notably, was the one
to post that here first) is a shame. Even though he created a
language which I find less tasteful he did not deserve to be
treated like that. Simple.
