On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 14:06:51 UTC, Dan Partelly
wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 09:39:22 UTC, codephantom
wrote:
[...]
Well, C++ had to evolve over a very long period of time, and
maintain compatibility with C. No other programming language
had to deal with technical and social issues C++ had to deal
with.
By comparison, D is young, and had the advantage it had no
constrains to be compatible (language wise) with another
language. Evolution time is not an excuse to a mixed
personality (even if perceived). For all it's evolution time
and mistakes and idiotic size of the language to pay for C's
sins and omissions I do not see C++ as mixed personality. I
never did. It evolved consistently. Also, another language, Ada
went through 1 standard and 3 major revisions in almost 35
years and retained it's personality basically unchanged. Too
bad it was designed with a Wirthian syntax, which IMO was one
of the factors it doomed it.
D went GC, but no quite mandatory GC, also not quite able to
run its in entirety without GC, then in it's old age, went for
cosmetic surgery to look like slim and sexy miss C. Much like a
beautiful and capricious women with commitment issues and a
fear of aging which went through 5 husbands. And it all started
with a GC and several wrong defaults ....
[...]
God knows. All "x" users of D would scream bloody murder, imo.
if that would become the d way and made us write memory safe
code, why not? rust developers already have to write code under
compiler dictated terms and nobody's complaining. d developers
who write d code like java are small in numbers compared to those
who don't. heck, i'll go even further and wish pure was also
default.
