D 2.096 and other news

Post by bsdooby » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 2:53 AM UTC

Kranar wrote: post #14

throwaway316943 wrote: post #12

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Sounds like it’s perfectly suited for indie game development where everything plus the kitchen sink is a must and the more customizable the better.

That's an excellent point actually. I think as a language D could work well for indie games but even there... if you're an indie developer do you go with D or with Unity (which uses C#)? That said, in principle one could imagine a version of Unity that used D instead of C#, and I think that would be a pretty neat combination.

Post by EvenThisAcronym » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 2:38 PM UTC

banachtarski wrote: post #10

elromulous wrote: post #6

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Imho, D's choice to be garbage collected has prevented wider adoption (that's the case for my usage at least). And as a compiled gc language, it competes squarely with golang, something that's likely hard to do, given the corporate (google) support golang has. Side note: I met the creater of D, Walter Bright (also of course famous for the digital mars compiler) at going native 2013 (now known as cppcon). Bright was t…

As just one anecdote, the mere presence of a GC made me stop looking at D more or less immediately. In terms of positioning, I think D would be better served focusing on a vertical.

Post by asalahli » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 1:00 AM UTC

WalterBright wrote: post #84

asalahli wrote: post #82

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But BetterC doesnt have exceptions :(

Exceptions require more than the Standard C library.