On Sunday, 6 December 2020 at 16:42:00 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad
wrote:
On Sunday, 6 December 2020 at 14:44:25 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
And while on the subject of low level programming in JVM or
.NET.
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/net-5-runtime-improvements/
Didnt say anything about low level, only simd intrinsics, which
isnt really low level?
It also stated "When it came to something that is pure CPU raw
computation doing nothing but number crunching, in general, you
can still eke out better performance if you really focus on
"pedal to the metal" with your C/C++ code."
So you must make the familiar "ease-of-programming" vs "x% of
performance" choice, where 'x' is presumably much smaller than
earlier.
So it is more of a Go contender, and Go is not a systems level
language... Apples and oranges.
D is good for systems level work but that's not all. I use it
for projects where, in the past, I'd have split the work between
two languages (Python and C/C++). I much prefer working with a
single language that spans the problem space.
If there is a way to extend D's reach with zero or a near-zero
complexity increase as seen by the programmer, I believe we
should (as/when resources allow of course).
