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" (which is > *highly* debatable as to whether it actually counts as meeting the above > criteria), 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 think there are many potential languages in that category: C++/Java/Delphi/C#... depends of definition of 'same category':'multiparadigm, functional, OOP etc.', or 'what are/can ya building with it'. And I don't think 'system programing' covers only kernel building. What about other multi threaded/process/heavy load/high concurrency/low level access stuff? Which to chose is more a matter of personal preference, company politics or convenience than of language capabilities.
