On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 22:25:01 UTC, eles wrote:
Why would somebody use better C rather than just plain C?
If you send me to a C compiler, why bother to evangelize me D?
I have C# and Java for all the other uses that are not embedded.
Please, stop telling about "alternatives". It is like taking
aways D's very reason of existence.
If is just an application language, it loses. There are better
and better-supported out there on the market.
But there is no better systems programming language.
I very much agree here, but we don't need new name to make D
suitable for systems programming. A small set of compiler
switches will suffice.
Mike