Re: D needs to publicize its speed of compilation

2017-12-29 Thread I Love Stuffing via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 10:06:18 UTC, Joakim wrote: This one of the main strengths of D, it is what Walter focuses on, yet I have seen almost nothing on the D blog talking about this. What brought me to emphasize this today is this recent post about how long it takes to compile the

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-29 Thread I Love Stuffing via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 29 December 2017 at 09:46:05 UTC, JN wrote: AFAIK Rust doesn't have templates, but generics. Generics usually have much cleaner error messages because they are mostly used for generic functions and classes, meanwhile templates can do that too but much, much more, but when they

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

2017-12-19 Thread I Love Stuffing via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 13:16:13 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 12:52:59 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 09:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: "C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804 "Maybe

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

2017-12-19 Thread I Love Stuffing via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 09:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: "C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804 I'm still not sure why this precludes GC from just being a standard library feature vs. a language feature. D is probably better prepared than