On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:10:28 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Every day D becomes more like C++ 2.0, why can't it just be D?
Oddly enough, I think this is D's strength.
I really don't.
Golang tried to draw the line, and look where that got it. Now
it's a limited language for a specific domain (at least until
Go 3.0).
Rust decided (and Go to some extent), to introduce foreign
syntax that was vastly different to what the majority of
programmers are familiar with, and, it makes it difficult to
transistion to because its syntax is so unlike the syntax most
people will continue to have to work with.
D's strength, is that most C/C++/Java/C# programmers can just
jump right in and use it. And, they can continue to go back and
forth without syntax related psychosis developing.
betterc is just another way of supporting that crowd..and it's
a very big crowd.
Yeah, 29% of the crowd.
Your problem is not betterc, but something else. So focus on
that instead.
You're right, my problem isn't BetterC, it's the fact that
Foundation can't get its priorities right. BetterC is a symptom.
And personally, depending on the problem, C# is better to
program in than D. I still don't know why C# programmers are
willing to give up C# and prefer to use D.
C# is vastly surperior for what it does.
I'm my current use-case, D is 'vastly superior'. I wouldn't have
switched to D if there was no reason to.
D is also particulary useful for some problems.
Better to use both, not one or the other.
Thanks to not being Go or Rust, you can do that - cause
concepts, syntax etc, are really compatible with both.
I'm not sure what you mean at that last sentence.
