D as a Better C

Re:D as a Better C by siliconsorcerer on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @12:26PM (#37135909)

D seems interesting but I'm kind of put off by the fact that there doesn't seem to be a lot of folks using it, at least in the circles I run in. Anyone have an answer to the question why aren't more people using D?

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Re:D as a Better C by DougMerritt on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:18PM (#37141118)

I don't know; its creator, Walter Bright, is a frequent poster here on YN, and it must be quite frustrating to him. My impression of it has been that it might well amount to a safer version of C, but I have yet to try it on a project.

A comparison with other "better C" languages, like the much more recent Zig, would be interesting too.

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Re:D as a Better C by pram on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:21PM (#37141147)

IIRC early on there was confusion because there were different runtimes/implementations? Then its thunder got stolen by Go and then Rust.

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Re:D as a Better C by tcmart14 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:58PM (#37152840)

That is my understanding of it. A lot of core parts/features had competing options. One one hand is kind of cool. But also, lead to a lot of confusion until the D programming language eventually adopted one or the other as the official one.

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