On 2013-12-03 03:01:12 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu said:
On 12/2/13 6:49 PM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
On 2013-12-03 00:36:28 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu said:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1rx8r2/go_binary_sizes_are_growing_out_of_control/
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1rvltx/scala_1_would_not_program_again/#new
Andrei
I find this particularly interesting. Where is the interest in Scala
being generated compared to D?
https://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&percent=true&l0=scala&l1=dmd&l2=haskell&l3=-1&l4=-1&commit=Update
-Shammah
The graph confirms what I believed - Scala is much more popular than D.
Odersky's response and the subsequent thread are interesting, too:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/scala-debate/153H3Ya4Nxk
Andrei
I don't understand it at all though. I've been using D (off and on)
since around 0.47. It's a fanastic language much better than Scala.
Props to Walter, and you. There are some rough edges, but I argue
about them on this forum, and for the most part many of the things that
I dislike, or want, have been added or changed in an acceptable way
over the last 10 years. I want to see this language succeed. I
tell everyone I know about it.
I burned out on D for awhile ago, but I've always poked my head in here
a couple times a year, and am now using it for a fairly large project.
The reason I kept having to abandon it in the past was due to blocking
compiler bugs with templates & CTFE, but with the new bugzilla I find
that the bugs I submit are generally noted and fixed in a reasonable
amount of time now. I like that the community is more open now.
There are some beasts who fix bugs really quickly in the frontend.
rant/
With that said, I am finding though that a lot of the documentation on
the website is not maintained well by the community. There are a lot
of references to deprecated features, or things that don't work. E.G.
scope'd calls allocation
scope Foo bar = new Foo; is all over the documentation. I've come to
find out this is deprecated?
Or this message from 2012:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
The hash-map doc still makes reference to opHash
(http://dlang.org/hash-map.html). Which bit me when I copied and
pasted.
/rant
I will try to do my part on updating these things.
-Shammah
