Am 23.08.2011, 05:11 Uhr, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]>:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/d-is-d-programming-language-just-too-much-898862/
Andrei
So I figure you want to collect some opinions.
- Garbage collection: I do miss the purity of C here and wish it was
really straight forward to switch between GC and manual memory management.
The argument that "the program stops randomly" will die hard.
- Delegates: They feel modern and can be put to good use.
- One clear way to do things: Actually that is what I like about Java. But
I understand that as soon as you mix programming paradigms the way D does
there are multiple approaches. As an OO programmer I prefer
interchangeable container classes and for operations on "ranges" there is
your neat library implementation, which I find innovative. Now it just
doesn't feel quite natural to bring them together. See also the talk about
the use of reference type ranges. Practically all containers should work
with the range API.
- string built-in: What the heck is he talking about? I couldn't imagine a
more light-weight string implementation. "the same thing with arrays" - he
probably doesn't understand that they are the same. Anyway after all
nothing would stop him from implementing an array wrapper class either
working on built-in arrays or pointers, if he prefers. D's strings are the
best that could have happened. (And I know Delphi has a similar approach.)
- unit tests & ddoc: :D - only I'd like to see some more hierarchy in the
documentation. The symbol list on top looks like a crime to me.
- compile app.d: Nice to have.
- Marco
