On Friday, 12 December 2014 at 11:58:04 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On 12/11/2014 10:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
D already does this. It's been said before, Jonathan is
reinventing D,
piece by piece :-)
What does that mean, it's been said?
Didn't anyone actually try to tell him about D?
I did in a quite long e-mail. Here is his answer:
I agree that D is a much better language than C++ but I don't
believe it is quite the right thing. I am going to keep doing
talks, and the further talks will go into more language
specifics, and I think you'll see that eventually it shapes up
into a pretty different language.
That said, I do think D has a lot of value, and if the world
switched over to D from C++ tonight, I think everyone would be
a lot better off.
I am well aware of how much work it is to make a new language
and get it adopted. It is a big job for sure! But, part of my
goal is to rally the big game development community to do that
big job.
I feel like he is a very capable programmer that simply want to
do his thing, like many of us do :)
