On 10/11/18 11:20 PM, JN wrote:
On Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 21:22:19 UTC, aberba wrote:
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That is fine, if you want to position yourself as competition to languages like Go, Java or C#. D wants to be a viable competition to languages like C, C++ and Rust, as a result, there are usecases where GC might not be enough.
Does it though? The way I see it is that people who want to do what C/C++ does are going to use ... C/C++. The same goes for Java/C#. People who want to do what Java/C# do are pretty much just going to use Java/C#. And nothing D does is going to convince them that D is truly better.
For the C/C++ D's more involved involved semantics for non-GC code are ALWAYS going to be a turnoff. And for Java/C# people D's less evolved standard library (and library ecosystem) is ALWAYS going to be a turnoff.
Where D shines is in it's balance between the two extremes. If want to attempt what C# can do with C++ i'm going to spend the next ten years writing code to replace what ships OOB in .NET. If I want to use C# as a systems language, I have to reinvent everything that C# relies on from the ground up, which will cost me about 10 years (see MSR's Singularity).
IMHO D should focus on being the best possible D it can be. If we take care of D, the rest will attend to itself.
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