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Re:I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D by pjmlp on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:05AM (#45690961)
They might have, still they are good enough to keep people on those ecosystems and not bother at all with D, and tbe current adoption warts concerning IDE tooling and available libraries.

Worse is better approach tends to always win.

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Re:I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D by WalterBright on Friday October 24, 2025 @06:10PM (#45699608)
Good enough is fine until one discovers how much better it can be.
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Re:I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D by pjmlp on Saturday October 25, 2025 @08:06AM (#45703236)
Unfortunately the opportunity window is gone now, and in the LLM age programming languages are becoming less relevant, when programming itself increasingly turns into coordinating agents.
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