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Re:Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System by z3phyr on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:55PM (#18610657)
Its not hostile. Its aggressive in selling the strong points of the language. Having said that, I do wish newer languages spring up that adapt the good stuff from Rust. I can never like Rust syntax.
Re:Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System by zanny on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @05:49PM (#18613513)
A ludicrous amount of engineering has gone into the Rust compiler, the extensive documentation in RFCs about its design, the huge language docs that took a million man hours to make, RLS is another huge undertaking...

I do forsee Rust getting a Coffeescript of its own. I'm in love with the control flow model of the language but always felt some things that were in from day one (like double colon :: namespace delimiters, ampersand references, asterisk pointers and dereferencing, semicolons, curly braces, etc) were just wholesale copied from the languages de jour of the day because the focus was on the borrow checker as an innovative feature. So the semantics and ergonomics were completely phoned in early on, and by the time the modern development process around the language and compiler matured the glyphs were so totally entrenched there was no way to reconsider any of it.

A syntactic wrapper that gives you the types and behaviors of Rust with beautification like whitespace significance over mandatory brace delimiters and semicolons (like Python) with single colon (or maybe even dot) namespacing and such would be an insanely hard project (because parsing Rust is already insanely hard, and a lot of work went into minimizing compiler passes to parse grammar so keeping that with less control characters to work with in an intuitive way sounds like a substantial exercise in ergonomics) that compiled to ugly normal Rust would be fantastic to help newbies avoid the "glyphic overload" I easily see happen to anyone I try to preach Rust to.

Re:Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System by skohan on Thursday December 06, 2018 @07:20AM (#18617355)
I totally agree re the ergonomics. It really feels to me as if a lot of C/C++ conventions were copied over, with no justification beyond "this is what system programming languages look like".
Re:Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System by Shorel on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:03PM (#18619777)
It would be ironic if D language did precisely that.