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That's a great perspective, but are those peeps writing the unused frameworks just wasting their time to solve a question nobody has asked? Take the D language
by Simon_O_Rourke 5y ago
That's a great perspective, but are those peeps writing the unused frameworks just wasting their time to solve a question nobody has asked?
Take the D language, it's basically a poor man's Java, with a shoddy garbage collector and aspirations at being C/C++... Is that the work of heroes or the misguided?
- int_19h 5y agoI don't even know what to respond to the last assertion, because it's "not even wrong". Like, just about the only thing D has in common with Java is their shared C syntactic heritage, and an object model with single inheritance. But that also describes numerous other languages.
- exdsq 5y agoD has interesting features like invariants
- johnny22 5y agoCan't it be both? or none of the above? I don't know anything about D specifically, but effort spent here is likely to be valuable elsewhere. Either because of techniques learned, or approaches validated. Even if D never catches on, folks will learn from what they've done. And the folks who did it, will likely be able to get jobs in the field. I doubt the effort is truly wasted.
- dexwiz 5y agoAre they solving a question no one asked, or a question that already has an answer? If there is already a clear answer, then it's probably a waste of time. Your answer needs to be better, and that is rare. When your answer is better, then its a paradigm shift to some. To others the answer is no better, and then it's just the infinite reinvention. It's even rarer to answer a question that no one has yet asked. Then you are a revolutionary.
- strictfp 5y agoSorry, but D is a good idea and much closer to golang in my book, plus a lot earlier. They just didn't have the funding.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Sorry, but D is a good idea and much closer to golang in my book Wait, are you saying GPs description of D doesn't fit Go at least as well?
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 5y ago> Is that the work of heroes or the misguided? Precisely both, since no one agrees. At least money can be used as a fitness function sometimes, with games and not with enterprise. The idea is that if D were that much better people would make more money by choosing it over Java.