Re:Driving with D
by teleforce on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @11:27AM
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>D was meant to replace C++ not be a fast Java like language, I would argue, it achieved neither.
Cannot comprehend your logic here, one of the Java objectives was also to replace C++. It kind of achieved the objective by consistently being top 3 languages since its introduction and it achieved that by not even natively compiled, unlike D. Based on Java story, it seems that having no GC is not a required condition for success. I'd had imagined if Java is not being invented the entire Android eco-system (the world's most popular operating system) will be written in C++.
>D wanted to be a mainstream language, this is why the adopted the C/C++/Java style of programming, and again they didnt achieve this objective
Not sure what is your point here since almost every programming languages wanted to be a mainstream language including Ruby, regardless whether the author admit it or not.
>D is not instinct, it still have a small dedicate user base, I just wholeheartedly think, today, you have far better options: Rust, Go, OCaml , C# , Kotlin
I think you meant 'extinct'. Time will eventually tell and no need to be so negative. When Python was 20 years old (about the same age as D today), it literally was playing a 2nd or 3rd fiddle to PHP, TCL, Perl, R, Ruby and Matlab in their respective domains, and look where is Python now? I believe even Guido did not have predicted the astronomical rise of Python at the time.
Cannot comprehend your logic here, one of the Java objectives was also to replace C++. It kind of achieved the objective by consistently being top 3 languages since its introduction and it achieved that by not even natively compiled, unlike D. Based on Java story, it seems that having no GC is not a required condition for success. I'd had imagined if Java is not being invented the entire Android eco-system (the world's most popular operating system) will be written in C++.
>D wanted to be a mainstream language, this is why the adopted the C/C++/Java style of programming, and again they didnt achieve this objective
Not sure what is your point here since almost every programming languages wanted to be a mainstream language including Ruby, regardless whether the author admit it or not.
>D is not instinct, it still have a small dedicate user base, I just wholeheartedly think, today, you have far better options: Rust, Go, OCaml , C# , Kotlin
I think you meant 'extinct'. Time will eventually tell and no need to be so negative. When Python was 20 years old (about the same age as D today), it literally was playing a 2nd or 3rd fiddle to PHP, TCL, Perl, R, Ruby and Matlab in their respective domains, and look where is Python now? I believe even Guido did not have predicted the astronomical rise of Python at the time.