Bryan Murdock wrote: > D has been around a while, but it just doesn't seem to be catching on; > maybe because it just doesn't have a large corporation behind it. > Maybe because it's not fully open source. Or, maybe because it > doesn't have all the features of Go.
D is pretty featureful, but until it's part of the GNU compiler collection, I doubt it will go anywhere. It's just one small company that owns and promotes it. On the other hand ObjC is in the GCC, but it's really only used by Mac and iPhone developers, which are a significant, albeit small, percentage. Outside of Apple the use of ObjC is pretty much nil. In the meantime, maybe I'm regressing to my academic days, but I have a hard time getting excited about any non-dynamic language. Also I have an aversion to curly braces. You'd think Go could at least have a python-like syntax, but since Ken Thompson invented C, I guess he has some strange fascination with curly braces and semicolons. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
