On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 00:23:10 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 00:05:10 UTC, Michael V.
Franklin wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:57:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh
wrote:
Doesn't this mean that we should rather focus our efforts on
improving druntime instead of throwing out the baby with the
bathwater with BetterC?
Exactly! We should be making a better D, not a better C.
Mike
There is no better C, than C, full stop.
-betterC should become .. -slimD
But we really do need a focus on both -slimD and -bloatyD
For D to be successful, it needs to be a flexible language that
enables programmer choice. We don't all have the same problems
to solve.
C is not successful because of how much it constrains you.
I'm personally a big believer that the thing that will replace C
is going to be something that is flexible, but more than anything
prevents the security bugs that plague the web right now. Things
like heartbleed are preventable with safety guarantees that don't
prevent fast code. Rust has some good ideas, but so does D.
