On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 17:59:35 UTC, Joakim wrote:
A Wired article about Swift coming to the server, particularly
after the imminent open-sourcing, that also mentions D as an
alternative, especially since it's written by the same guy who
wrote about D for Wired last year:
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/apples-swift-ios-programming-language-is-being-remade-for-data-centers/
Will be interesting to see how Swift does, a good natural
experiment for those pushing D to focus on one niche before
expanding, as Swift is doing really well on one of the most
important development platforms today, iOS, before expanding
onto the server. Of course, Apple is unlikely to really push
it on the server, other than open-sourcing and accepting
patches, so they have a built-in excuse if it doesn't do well.
;)
Maybe we have a good opportunity to compete with Swift at home.
Avoiding XCode, not being tied to a particular SDK, being able to
target very ancient systems are some of the pluses I've found
when using D with OS X.
I'd bet using D for iOS can entail similar gains, and avoid being
tied to an Apple language.
