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I am looking forwards to a new system programming language - hopefully it matures well in the next few years. I still love C, but would love to be able to work
by brianobush 17y ago
I am looking forwards to a new system programming language - hopefully it matures well in the next few years. I still love C, but would love to be able to work in a little bit higher language. I have python for high level work. Will have to give go a try for my next tool app.
- mkramlich 17y agocheck out D, by Walter Bright of Digital Mars it is older than Go Bright is an old skool C/C++ compiler writer from the 80's. Seems to know his stuff. Co-authored one of my favorite computer games of all time too, Empire.
- rdtsc 17y agoI looked at D. But it is lacking good "batteries" -- standard libraries (Phobos? Tango?). For a language to be useful it has to have a very good standard library. Preferable one good standard library. That is probably the main reason why Python and Java became popular. I picked Python over Ruby because it had a better standard library. Using Java after years of using C++ with various standard and not-so-standard libraries, was a breath of fresh air. I liked D as a language, but I didn't like its librar(y|ies) so I discarded it.
- jussij 17y agoI tink they are planning to fix this in the upcoming D2 release. For this next release a lot of effort has gone into improving the Phobos library and I think this next release will also let Phobos and Tango work together.