On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 10:43:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 10:36:13 UTC, ddcovery wrote:
GC if D is not enough for you), but think about the thousands
of experienced developers that where looking for something
mature to work with and found that D was not an option.
And that's the point. The vast majority of _experienced_
developers recognize the current GC for what it is: a very
basic primitive Boehm-style GC. Which basically is a trip back
to the 1990s (or 1970s, whenever they started programming).
And if it isn't clear: stuff like that (and bugs in the type
system) is what makes _experienced_ developers do exactly what
you said. They do go to Rust, Go and C++ (or Nim or Zig).
Go back through the forums and you see plenty of dedicated D
users that did exactly that.
Lost opportunities.
And that is why you don't get the eco system you think is needed.
Truly _experienced_ programmers do test a new language before
they commit to it. They will recognize the flaws based on prior
experience. They do know what typical flaws in language design
look like. They have experience with maybe 5-15 languages, so you
cannot just throw stupid slogans in their face, they are used to
that too.
