On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 19:37:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 07:09:42PM +0000, Patrick Schluter via
Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
I often have the impression that a lot of things are going
slower than necessary because a mentality where the perfect is
in the way of good.
That is indeed an all-too-frequent malady around these parts,
sad to say. Which has the sad consequence that despite all
efforts, there are still unfinished areas in D, and promises
that haven't materialized in years (like multiple alias this).
Still, the parts of D that are working well form a very
powerful and comfortable-to-use language. Not quite the ideal
we wish it to be, but IMO much closer than any other language
I've seen yet. Recently I began dabbling in Android
programming, and the one thing that keeps sticking out to me is
how painful writing Java is. Almost every day of writing Java
code has me wishing for this or that feature in D. Slices.
Closures. Meta-programming. I found most of my time spent
fighting with language limitations rather than make progress
with the problem domain.
Yes, this is why I began the Android port: I couldn't imagine
writing Java.
Eventually I resorted to generating Java code from D for some
fo the most painful repetitive parts, and the way things are
looking, I'm likely to be doing a lot more of that. I fear the
way things are going will have be essentially writing a D to
Java compiler at some point!
Why not just use the Android port of D?
