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Thanks for sharing, I enjoy reading your posts in regards to how ahead of time Dlang was in adopting these improvements. I wanted to ask: did you ever consider

by lpapez 2y ago

Thanks for sharing, I enjoy reading your posts in regards to how ahead of time Dlang was in adopting these improvements. I wanted to ask: did you ever consider what was missing from Dlang to achieve widespread adoption? Clearly it was not features, so I'm wondering what that would be from your pespective.

WalterBright 2y ago
The marketing department was what was missing. I've always had that problem. Borland was brilliant at marketing an inferior compiler. Phillippe Kahn is an amazing businessman. (He's also a very fun person to talk to.) For example, Borland at one point decided to include the source code to some of its runtime library for free. At a compiler roundup in the magazine, this was hailed as a great advance forward by the reviewer. Meanwhile, Datalight C was also in the roundup, and had always included 100% of the runtime library source code. No mention was made of this.
dataflow 2y ago
> what was missing from Dlang to achieve widespread adoption This: https://godbolt.org/z/s49qzPn81 https://godbolt.org/z/s49qzPn81