On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 12:53:46 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
Yeah, stop duplicating what's out there and start writing
similar software what already exists. Sounds great.
And every man, women... and their 2 dogs...are targetting mobile,
web, cloud these days.
The idea that D is going to compete with the like of
Google/Apple/MSFT in these areas..is..well..unconvincing.
The idea that such companies and going to rip up their massive
codebases and rewrite them in D...is..well..unconvincing.
But everyone wants a more modular, more refined, more modern,
more secure operating system ...and a more secure systems
programming language.
But very who's focused on that?
Go has some potential, but I don't like many of its design
decisions.
Rust is going nowhere, IMHO.
So D could take advantage of the fact the big corporates are
focused elsewhere (and, also, that they're not very likely to
turn their attention to redeveloping their os any time soon).
It could take advantage of Go, having made some questionable
design decisions.
It could take advantage of Rust, seemingly going nowhere (IMHO).
So if there was ever a time for 'System D', it's now.
Instead, everyones focused on making it compatible..with
this..and that...which is great..that will certainly bring
attention to D...but I suspect it won't do too much more than
that.
D needs a grander vision.
