On 6/8/11 4:38 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad
<public@kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hudvd/
the_go_programming_language_or_why_all_clike/
The author presents a "wish list" for his perfect systems programming
language, and claims that Go is the only one (somewhat) fulfilling it.
With the exception of item 7, the list could well be an
advertisement for
D.
-Lars
I found the comments on the Hacker News post
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2631964> about this article more
interesting.
Regards,
Brad Anderson
Agreed. The top poster does repeat a point made by others: D does fail
on point 7. Allow me to paste it:
=============
7. Module Library and Repository
I want all the niceties I have grown used to in scripting languages
built-in or part of the standard library. A public package repository
with a decent portable package manager is even better. Typical packages
include internet protocols, parsing of common syntaxes, GUI, crypto,
common mathematical algorithms, data processing and so on. (Example:
Perl 5 CPAN)
=============
That's it. We need a package management expert on board to either revive
dsss or another similar project, or define a new package manager
altogether. No "yeah I have some code somewhere feel free to copy from
it"; we need professional execution. Then we need to make that tool part
of the standard distribution such that library discovery, installation,
and management is as easy as running a command.
I'm putting this up for grabs. It's an important project of high impact.
Wondering what you could do to help D? Take this to completion.
Andrei
