On Friday, 11 July 2014 at 17:54:38 UTC, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
On Friday, 11 July 2014 at 15:30:18 UTC, Chris wrote:
Let's not
forget that zeolots and professional posters will always point
out the flaws of D, and blow them out of proportion. "D
doesn't have xyz, so it's shit!" Divide et impera (divide and
rule).
Lol, this one made me laugh.
It is true though. I have only been keeping up with D for like
the last year or so and have found that its missing many things
that i would like it to do by itself, without the help of
C/C++. Multimedia and graphics for example.
D ALWAYS has to rely on C/C++ libraries for this. OpenGL is an
exception because...well...every OS out there has OpenGL...
Why reinvent the wheel, when D can interface to the wheel. A lot
of things are programmed in C/C++. Other languages use modules
(Python, Java) to access existing C libraries. D can do it
straight away. I cannot tell you how much it has helped me. I
depend on C libraries not because I use D, but because the
libraries are useful and well established / tested / sound.
Apart from that GC is a concern to many. I can see why GC would
not be needed for a systems language but i see D primarily as a
General Software Programming language where GC is most needed.
