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Speaking not from direct experience, having barely touched C++ in the past and never touched D yet, but I've read many paint it as the natural successor, so why
by squarefoot 4y ago
Speaking not from direct experience, having barely touched C++ in the past and never touched D yet, but I've read many paint it as the natural successor, so why not D?
- timbit42 4y agoIs D safe like Rust? I don't believe it is. I've written a little D and I like it but we need safe languages. The industry ignored the safety of Pascal, Modula-2, and Ada back in the 1970's and chose C because it was slightly faster. Now we're getting hacked left, right and center and have a huge base of C and C++. Sigh.
- olodus 4y agoYeah I don't really understand that either. I have never written D myself but everyone I've looked at the language it has seemed to have sensible solutions to things and I would much rather write that than C++. I guess it hasn't as good interoperability with existing C++ as Carbon is aiming for (I don't think, could be wrong) and wouldn't give Google as much control of it as it probably will have over Carbon.
- effingwewt 4y agoI love C++, being old school, and would love a decent successor but I'd never again touch anything with the google death-stamp. How long before they pull the rug out, or do any of their other dirty shenanigans?
- iamcreasy 4y agoI've heard Jonathan Blow say D is still too much like C++ in one of the initial video on Jai.