On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 01:39 +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Tuesday, 26 December 2017 at 19:34:35 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: > > > Rust is an example of a language that got it right. > > Rust got it right for a single, very specialized use case. The > cost is that the language is of interest to the tiny fraction of > programmers for whom that use case is relevant. Most don't want > to read a dissertation on memory management to write Hello World, > and having a weirder syntax than Haskell doesn't help either. D > is a programming language appropriate for many use cases.
Don't you believe it. Rust is attracting a lot of people and financial support from people who used C and failed to be interested in C++ because it didn't add memory safety. The example I am interested in is GStreamer. It's a C system that has C++, Python, D, etc. bindings but had no interested in not being a C system until Rust arrived. Now there is a huge push to it being a Rust system, exactly because Rust provides something C doesn't have and C++ didn't support. D wasn't an option here due to lack of knowledge by the GStreamer crew. Now D has no future in this arena despite GtkD providing a D binding, it is all Rust-bound. -- Russel. ========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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