On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 at 04:10:51 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist
wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 at 03:55:21 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 11/03/2015 4:16 p.m., Taylor Hillegeist wrote:
So I found http://ec-lang.org/ it seems alot like D, But it
has a
company backing it. It just seems interesting.
There is almost no meta programming support. Let alone CTFE.
And no generics in the form of e.g. Java's is not the same as
D's meta-programming support.
Yes, D is a very powerful language with a boatload of features.
eC almost seems like a subset. but what I find fascinating is
the infrastructure built around it. Of course when someone's
full time job is to build infrastructure, I tends to happen
more predictably. But like all things in life you have to take
the good, and carry it with you into the future. I bet there is
alot we can learn from eC. I wonder how compatible the two
languages are, I have been experimenting with language to
language porting techniques, every language is in similar in
some way to another, but to varying degrees.
A quote from Jerome on the eC forum.
"eC is yet another multiparadigm procedural/object-oriented
language which has C for its foundation.
This puts it alongside Java, C++, C#, D, Objective C and probably
countless others less famous programming languages."
"What this means:
- You can include C library headers directly in your .ec code,
without any special keyword (like extern "C" in C++)
- There is no special mangling going on for normal functions (C
binary compatibility), which means you can interface in both
directions with any language supporting C bindings.
- Simply put, eC does not take anything away from C, it only adds
useful features to it"
