How I Came to Write D (2014)

Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by bachmeier on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:10PM (#17221155)

> good programming languages would win or lose on their own merits

Well I suppose that depends on what you mean by "merits". D has struggled with things like IDE support and breaking changes. A lot of that is now cleared up or being worked on as the language has seen increased activity over the last few years. I expect remaining issues to get cleaned up in the near future.

Another thing that kept folks away was the garbage collector. Quite a lot of work is being done to make it possible to use as much of the language as possible without the GC. Nonetheless, for many potential users, fear of the GC was a reason to not use D.

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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by WalterBright on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:08PM (#17221497)

You can use DasBetterC now with no GC whatsoever.

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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by grok2 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:37PM (#17223811)

What is DasBetterC?

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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by NonEUCitizen on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:53PM (#17223890)

D as a Better C

from Walter's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17192702

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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by grok2 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:14PM (#17224008)

So, not the German "Das"...I was aware of -betterC, but was curious about Walter referring to it everywhere of late as DasBetterC.

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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by WalterBright on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:15PM (#17224020)

I was in Muenchen when I noticed the "Das", so yes, it works as the German Das.

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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by girvo on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:51PM (#17223878)

Subset of the D language that acts as a “better C”. No GC, manual allocation etc. and no runtime I believe.

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