On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 03:25:47 UTC, codephantom wrote:
But everyone wants a more modular, more refined, more modern,
more secure operating system ...and a more secure systems
programming language.
How rewriting Linux from scratch will enhance security of the OS?
By introducing more bugs to the new code?
But very who's focused on that?
Go has some potential, but I don't like many of its design
decisions.
fakin' D fanboy!
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).
Because nobody spends billions of dollars on something what will
not brings anything new.
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.
