Re:D Programming Language
by tmtvl on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:21AM
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Go wasn't around when D was released and Java has for the longest time been quite horrible (I first learnt it before diamond inference was a thing, but leaving that aside it's been overly verbose and awkward until relatively recently).
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Is Java even a "systems programming" language?
I don't even know what that term means anymore; but afaik Java didn't really have reliable low-level APIs until recently.
Depends if one considers writing compilers, linkers, JITs, database engines, and running bare metal on embedded real time systems "systems programming".