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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by pjmlp on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:17PM (#14608032)
> Others are "something better than C++ for most apps you'd write in C++ today".

As big C++ fan and language geek, I am pretty confident that if Java and .NET had taken the route of all other alternatives in the 90's (Oberon, Eiffel, Modula-3, Delphi,...), C and C++ would be less relevant today than they turned out to be.

This because many people make use of them, just because they are the only languages they know about compilers that produce AOT executables, with the option of static linking them.

Maybe even Longhorn would have been a success, instead of having to wait for UWP with .NET Native.

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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by int_19h on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:43PM (#14609286)
Indeed. With C# especially it is rather ironic, because the timeline of its development closely overlaps with D - I remember learning the newly released C# 1.0 as I was experimenting with those early 0.x versions of D.
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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by throwaway7645 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @07:08PM (#14608777)
I agree with your points. I do like to bring Nim up as it uses python like syntax with types and then transpiles to C. You get a fast and small native binary and can choose from 2 different GC or no GC. It has a small, but very active community.
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