Why I Like D

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Post by aradaelli » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

Re: Why I Like D

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Post by dbi » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 3:18 PM UTC

Interesting points, but the up sides of dlang are over shadowed by the fact that rust won the hearts of many low level developers and has gotten traction. I know of a few companies that are having difficult finding skilled developers because of this.

Re: Why I Like D

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Post by scavenger5 » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:31 AM UTC

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Re: Why I Like D

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Post by WalterBright » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:31 AM UTC

dbi wrote: post #2

Interesting points, but the up sides of dlang are over shadowed by the fact that rust won the hearts of many low level developers and has gotten traction. I know of a few companies that are having difficult finding skilled developers because of this.

I suppose it depends on whether you want to do something you enjoy, or follow the crowd.

Re: Why I Like D

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Post by WalterBright » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:34 AM UTC

BetterC got a lot of resistance at first, along the lines of who needs it. (BetterC is a subset of D that only relies on the C standard library.) But over time it has accumulated a lot of users, as being C without the troubles.

We've gone a step further with ImportC, and now C code can be imported directly into the D compiler, which makes it easy to interface D code to your existing C base.

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Post by perrohunter » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:34 AM UTC

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Post by dinkleberg » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:34 AM UTC

scavenger5 wrote: post #3

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Gotta head over to Reddit for those posts.

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Post by ouch_ » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:38 AM UTC

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Re: Why I Like D

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Post by type_enthusiast » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:46 AM UTC

A colleague (who is probably one of the smartest people I've met) made VectorFlow targeting D: https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow

I've never had a chance to look at it much, but I think the magic is in the metaprogramming capabilities. It's more principled than C++ templates, more ergonomic than Scala macros, and more practical than Template Haskell. Somehow. (At least this was my impression from discussing it)

Re: Why I Like D

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Post by hypertele-Xii » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:54 AM UTC

D makes a compelling promise, but it's still ongoing metamorphosis. Changes too rapidly for libraries to take root. Every time I look at it there's a "new, better way" of doing everything so all the tools and libraries are out of date, at all times. And the whole thing doesn't sound so clean and elegant anymore.