Walter Bright: > There are thousands of languages out there. If I did due diligence > researching > them all, I'd never finish, as new languages get created faster than anyone > could ever study them. At some point, you've gotta pick and choose what > you're > going to look at in depth.
I agree. On the other hand using few days every year, to try in their native environment one or two new languages every year is good, to keep a hold of what others are doing. In the past I have suggested C#3 and Scala. So you can learn why people ask for IDE-related features, or a useful unit-testing, etc. > There are a > lot of people working hard on them, but we can use more help. After all, > there > is no corporation pouring billions into D. We're a bunch of volunteers. I think that eventually I will try to fix D bugs myself :-) Regarding base type names I have proposed : byte => sbyte wchar => char16 (or shortchar) dchar => char32 (or intchar) http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3850 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3936 Bye, bearophile
