On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 at 09:13:02 UTC, ixid wrote:
Otherwise if you like D, then try to
improve it from the inside, writing dmd/Phobos/druntime pull
requests,
instead of doing it from the outside.
I'd never have my PR's pulled.
I'm also not as interested in language development as it might
appear.
I'm interested in writing code and getting work done, and
minimising
friction.
I'm interested in more efficient ways to get my work done, and
also
opportunities to write more efficient code, but that doesn't
mean I
want to stop doing my work and instead work on HOW I do my
work.
I find myself in a very awkward situation where I'm too far
in... I can't go back to C++,
Have you taken a look at Rust?
Yeah, it's just too weird for me to find realistic. It also
more
rigidly asserts it's opinions on you, which are in many cases,
not
optimal. Rust typically shows a performance disadvantage,
which I care
about.
Perhaps more importantly, for practical reasons, I can't ever
imagine
convincing a studio of hundreds of programmers to switch to
rust. C++
programmers can learn D by osmosis, but staff retraining
burden to
move to Rust seems completely unrealistic to me.
You're a vital alternative voice, please try to stick with us.
The interest your talk and presence generated for D was huge
and the games industry should be a major target for D. I also
suspect Andrei is doing a major project at the moment which is
making him uncharacteristically harsh in his responses, from
his POV he's doing something massive to help D while the
community has gone into a negative mode.
+10 <3
Pardon the pandering, but I actually see Andrei Walter and you as
making up the trinity of idealism, codegen pragmatism and
industry use respectively.
