Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System

Post by tombert » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 3:47 PM UTC

nwah1 wrote: post #70

tombert wrote: post #68

I have wondered for awhile now why Rust is getting all this attention of being "Like C but safe and cool!", but no one would mention D. I personally don't do systems programming because I'm not smart enough but the little bit I have done, I found D to be the most-natural feeling (even over Rust), and D has been around a lot longer. I suppose timing is everything for these kinds of things.

D had a closed source reference compiler for a long time, and didn't have any major backers. Rust had Mozilla backing early, and was fully open and transparent in terms of community feedback, and wasn't just making a language that had high level features, but was pioneering a new category of language that added tons of safety guarantees at compile time by default using a new paradigm of enforcing borrowing and owners…

Post by p0nce » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 3:53 PM UTC

nwah1 wrote: post #70

tombert wrote: post #68

I have wondered for awhile now why Rust is getting all this attention of being "Like C but safe and cool!", but no one would mention D. I personally don't do systems programming because I'm not smart enough but the little bit I have done, I found D to be the most-natural feeling (even over Rust), and D has been around a lot longer. I suppose timing is everything for these kinds of things.

D had a closed source reference compiler for a long time, and didn't have any major backers. Rust had Mozilla backing early, and was fully open and transparent in terms of community feedback, and wasn't just making a language that had high level features, but was pioneering a new category of language that added tons of safety guarantees at compile time by default using a new paradigm of enforcing borrowing and owners…

Post by FraaJad » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 4:10 PM UTC

p0nce wrote: post #73

nwah1 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

D had a closed source reference compiler for a long time, and didn't have any major backers. Rust had Mozilla backing early, and was fully open and transparent in terms of community feedback, and wasn't just making a language that had high level features, but was pioneering a new category of language that added tons of safety guarantees at compile time by default using a new paradigm of enforcing borrowing and owners…

Compiling slower than C++ is not exciting.

Post by always_good » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 4:14 PM UTC

p0nce wrote: post #73

nwah1 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

D had a closed source reference compiler for a long time, and didn't have any major backers. Rust had Mozilla backing early, and was fully open and transparent in terms of community feedback, and wasn't just making a language that had high level features, but was pioneering a new category of language that added tons of safety guarantees at compile time by default using a new paradigm of enforcing borrowing and owners…

Compiling slower than C++ is not exciting.

Post by vram22 » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 4:20 PM UTC

yvdriess wrote: post #16

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #2

I discovered D is a secret weapon at several companies, but not all of them want to make it widely known...

Several languages seem to share this curse. You do see companies advertise it on language conferences or websites: Jane Street for OCaml, Remedy Entertainment for D-lang, Naughty Dog and ITA for Common Lisp. But you are often left wondering if it is the tip if the iceberg, or an accurate reflection of industry use. In the case of CL, you see multiple commercial implementations still being supported, indicating much m…