Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:52:26 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Bane" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> I hope that D's users club will grow over time, in spite of heavy >> oposition of number mature and popular languages in same category. What >> I believe is that existing club members are dedicated to and very happy >> with it, so numbers will only grow. >> >> > The way I see it, there are depressingly few languages in the same > category as D (that category being multi-paradigm languages that are > realistically usable for systems programming). Thare's C/C++ (although, > IMO C/C++ is a bit anachronistic these days), and then there's Google > "Issue 9"
I bet the systems programmers often believe that a single language can't serve all possible problem domains. You can probably see that even C and C ++ are used on different kinds of projects. C++ isn't very good for modeling operating system kernels. C on the other hand fails on high level user interface and business logic programming and on trivial multithreaded systems. , and then Cyclone and maybe a couple > others like Vala that don't seem to be very mature ATM (at least > compared to D anyay). And that's about it. I thought Vala was an attempt to built GNOME 3.0 using a modern garbage collected semi high level language by porting C# to native code & gobject system. I don't really expect Vala to be used outside GNOME.
