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This comment is well written and pretty informative. The fact that it's downvoted to gray text shows how much of an over opinionated echo chamber this site has
by mastrsushi 6y ago
This comment is well written and pretty informative. The fact that it's downvoted to gray text shows how much of an over opinionated echo chamber this site has become.
- mhh__ 6y agoI think it misses the fact that D enables patterns that are fundamentally not possible in other languages and represents a slightly odd fusion of two extremely intelligent people with almost totally different approaches to software. The result of that, D, let's you write C++ but also Pythonic code - C++ has definitely caught up, but it still lags massively behind in fairly fundamental things that D stakes it claims on. For example: D has Ada-style contracts - these are extremely simple, and so blindingly obvious it's criminal they're so uncommon. I also don't like the tone of the last paragraph. Should we be trying new things or not? Named arguments have just been approved, we're hashing out string interpolation as I write this, memory safety is an ambition but we can't rush it etc.
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- p0nce 6y agoThese sort of doom predictions have existed since the beginning of D, it hasn't stopped getting users. It's basically FUD. If you look at the thread link, basically everyone is happy using D so maybe contrast this well written criticism with reality...