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What do you consider as "fad languages"?
Not going to start a flame war. Everyone has their opinions, However there are languages that come and go, and then are swift to become popular, but then are left to rust, because people stopped having smalltalk about them.
> languageS Come And popuLar Are
> S C A L A
Did I do that right?
Good news indeed. Switched to D 4 years ago, and have never looked back. I wager that you can sit down a C++/Java/C# veteran, and say write some D code. Here's the manual, have fun. They will with in a few hours be comfortable with the language, and be fairly competent D programmer. Very little FUD surrounding the switching to yet another language with D. D's only issue is that it does not have general adoption, whic…
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What do you consider as "fad languages"?
Not going to start a flame war. Everyone has their opinions, However there are languages that come and go, and then are swift to become popular, but then are left to rust, because people stopped having smalltalk about them.
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Not all smart pointers are reference counted.
Sure, smart pointers can also refer to bounds checking, etc. In this case, grandparent did mention a memory management technique, namely garbage collection. Memory management + plus typically required thread safety usually means reference counting.
Good news indeed. Switched to D 4 years ago, and have never looked back. I wager that you can sit down a C++/Java/C# veteran, and say write some D code. Here's the manual, have fun. They will with in a few hours be comfortable with the language, and be fairly competent D programmer. Very little FUD surrounding the switching to yet another language with D. D's only issue is that it does not have general adoption, whic…
What do you consider as "fad languages"?
The ultimate power that can actually be manifested in physical reality (as far as we know) is still Turing Machines[1]... the rest is mostly ergonomics.
[1] Well, QM may add a "little bit" of efficiency, but it doesn't add any oracular power, per se. AFAIUI, at least.
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Sure, smart pointers can also refer to bounds checking, etc. In this case, grandparent did mention a memory management technique, namely garbage collection. Memory management + plus typically required thread safety usually means reference counting.
uniq_ptr in C++ and Box in Rust are both considered smart pointers, dealing with memory management, and don't do any reference counting, bounds checking, or anything else like that at runtime. They're a compile-time abstraction only.
Somehow I wasn't considering unique_ptr as a smart pointer, despite using it all the time for resource management to avoid writing wrapper classes.
I do now, you're right.
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Professional D coder here. - DMD is by far the D compiler with the shortest compile time. It's actually so fast that it comes with a utility, 'rdmd', which compiles-then-execute a D program. Say goodbye to shell/perl/python scripts, now you can have compile-time checks without an explicit/slow compilation step. We use it for automation tasks. - GDC is the compiler of choice when it comes to supporting multiple target…
How good is D for: -iOS? -Android? -Windows?
Android: Experimental https://wiki.dlang.org/Build_LDC_for_Android
Windows: Works. Here is the Visual Studio Integration https://github.com/dlang/visuald
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What do you consider as "fad languages"?
Not going to start a flame war. Everyone has their opinions, However there are languages that come and go, and then are swift to become popular, but then are left to rust, because people stopped having smalltalk about them.
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Why does gc disqualify a language as a system's language? P.S. I think of a system's language as one that runs directly on the machine, e.g. Swift, C, go. They operate at the "system" level.
> Why does gc disqualify a language as a system's language? AFAIK a "system programming language" should have deterministic performances, obviously Go hasn't. But different people might define "systems" differently.
So for them, a language that can be used by DevOps Engineers is a systems language. While for sane developers, a systems language is one with deterministic attributes and the ability to be compiled to native code with no/a minimal runtime. I.e. one you can code "a system" in.
Hopefully a fully FOSS compiler will bring it right into the mainstream.