On Saturday, 24 June 2017 at 10:34:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Saturday, 24 June 2017 at 09:35:56 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
I'm assuming that D is for general purpose programming as
well.
That seems to be where it is heading. I don't think D stands
a chance in that domain, but we'll see.
With all due respect, on the contrary I think that promoting D
as a general purpose programming language could be its only
chance to really improve its popularity, and thus
significantly grow its current user base.
Most programming languages are technically "general purpose",
but when projects look for tooling they aren't looking for
something generic, they are looking for a solution to a
specific domain.
So, for a language to succeed you need to provide the best
solution to something specific.
I agree, but it will be hard for D to beat C++, because people
who *need* to use C++ as a "systems programming language" won't
use D for the same reasons they don't use C#, Java or Go.
Just its GC keeps many C++ developers away from it, whether is
justified or not, despite D is as low level and performant.
But a GC is rarely a problem for a scripter, because most
scripting language already work this way.
So I think promoting D as a "systems programming language" won't
help in improving its popularity, as its GC doesn't make it the
best solution on this market.
