On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 11:28:18 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:46:03 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:31:34 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 06:42:29 UTC, Anton Fediushin
wrote:
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"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being
talked about." Oscar Wilde
"There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own
obituary." Brendan Behan
Well, maybe the odd person will keep D in the back of his/her
mind, also it says:
"But it is a convenient way to taste managed memory and all
of the “new” concepts without leaving familiar tool chains
and losing the C library."
So someone who's interested in that (plus
C-interoperability!) might give D a shot. I was one of them a
long long time ago.
Yes that is true, BUT it also gives the wrong portray of D,
when in fact D could fit into most, if not all the categories
listed, but it's portrayed as if it only fits for C/C++
programmers and again not as something serious, but as a
semi-useless toy.
I agree. However, these are misconceptions that D has had to
live with for years. It's hard to get rid of them. On the
bright side, D gets a mention while years ago it wouldn't even
have made it onto the list, which is a good sign, because it
shows that D is on the tech-radar. Apparently it is being
talked about and mentioned elsewhere in the tech-world and the
author felt he couldn't just leave it out.
Also, as this thread shows, people take the language
descriptions in the article with a grain of salt anyway (and
rightly so!). So I think, all things considered, it's a good
sign that D got mentioned. I remember, in the old days people
would wonder why D wasn't on lists like that at all. So there's
some progress there.
Yes I agree it's great that D is talked about.
I just feel like someone is dropping salt into my coffee when
it's misinterpreted.
I hope one day all the legacy, non-relevant issues D had will
cease to exist and that it will be looked upon what it is
__today__ instead of what it was in the __past__
