On 6/10/11 8:31 PM, bearophile wrote:
Andrei:
I'd love to see more evidence to this claim.
Right :-)
Interesting work became possible after it became clear to everyone
that the language is now given, so it's time to use what's there.
If you want to build stable large frameworks and libraries then
having a "stable" (backwards compatible) language helps. But in this
thread we are only talking about additive changes.
Don't kid yourself. Every additive change creates more precedent and
more reason to refuse thinking creatively within the language. It also
means the language and its fostered idioms are a moving target.
And C#/Python show
abundant code written even while C# was adding generics, dynamic,
named arguments, and many other things (and C#5 will add more
things), and the same has happened to Python too, since several
years. Python is just out of a design hiatus meant to help other
Python implementations catch up, and now new design ideas are
discussed again. In D syntax sugar for tuple unpacking is useful for
library programmers too.
I think these languages are at a different point in their evolution than
D. We still don't have a strong answer to "what are the largest apps
written in D" and this is because many people with an interest in the
language are paralyzed in analysis. I know the phenomenon: after you
spend a lot discussing designs, it is downright frightening to commit to
one.
Andrei
