watching wrote:
most programmer want use the language and a lot libraries that come with it.
instead of gui, db etc. you guys discuss until all prospective users are gone
off to use something that lets them do the job
maybe it is time to put a large effort into libraries by all the bright people that are arroung d.
The IDE I'm developing is exactly for that purpose, to bring more people
to D and to make writing D code more convenient.
The D language doesn't need to come with tons of libraries out of the
box, its a systems language after all; C++ only comes with the STL and C
with the stdlib, you need platform headers and third party libraries to
do something more than a simple console program.
The D2 spec is still in development and so are most libraries for it, a
book is getting near publication. I figured I'd contribute my part with
an IDE, C++ sounded like a convenient choice at the moment.
D is already much more convenient to use as a language than any other
language I touched before and its only a matter of time before its
libraries base grows.
In any ways, I believe its a good thing to use multiple languages to
better understand the differences between them, the end result doesn't
change. I could've used java, C#, python or even mozilla's XUL with
javascript and the IDE would've been the same.
Jeremie
Walter Bright Wrote:
hasenj wrote:
watching wrote:
what a pityful sate d is in. this probably shows, that you can't use d
for anything serious and by the time you guys are through discussing
things, people will be using something different for good.
too bad
+1
Totally agreed
I really like that Adam and Jeremie are doing something about
shortcomings they perceive. That's what this is all about.
