On Sunday, 9 June 2013 at 06:03:14 UTC, Manu wrote:
I'm here, and interested in D due mainly to it's immediate
familiarity, as
opposed to others like Rust for instance. I can actually
envision a
migration. It seems like it's possible... one step at a time.
...it's also compiled and binary compatible, which is obviously
critical ;)
.. (this is where C# fails, or everyone would already be on
that wagon
without question)
I see your point, but there's a contradiction since I think a lot
of the reason to move away from C/C++ to D is because D is
actually different and does things in a more sane way. If you
want to retain familiarity and 100% compatibility with C/C++,
then just stick with C/C++. Yes D has attempted to remain sort of
compatible with C.C++, so as to allow for a migration and to
leverage the momentum, but that means that D is not truly
standing on its own, and because of this, it has limited itself
and deeply integrated some of the same bad things about C/C++
into D.
Rather than pollute D for sake of compatibility with all of the
bad mistakes of the past, we should find better interfacing
strategies. For instance, maybe a smart linker can help.
--rt
