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The Next Big Programming Language You've Never Heard of – WIRED
- sup 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7999725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7999725
- robmccoll 12y agoWasn't D fractured around two completely incompatible standard libraries? What ever happened there?
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- commentzorro 12y agoIt was fractured a few years ago with D1. D2 (now just called D) resolved those differences and is almost a new language at this point. Think of D1 as a long term test with D2/D being the do-over that most languages don't get the chance to try. Jettison the bad and add good stuff that had been talked about but could't be easily be done w/o tons of breaking changes.
- Signez 12y agoI've heard of D. It seems like a great idea, but all that stuff with proprietary compiler, poor online documentation, and zero public approval from any organization (except Facebook but it's lately) were a big no-no for my side-projects, keeping aside any commercial ones. Now, Rust seems to be the perfect drop-in replacement in my heart for "new language that makes coffee while being readable and awesome to use".
- commentzorro 12y agoYou're right. D, just two compilers and only few well written books is terrible when compared to the biblical legacy Rust has built up. And I certainly wouldn't want to use anything that didn't come out of a big corporation. Organic growth for anything technical just means the technology sucks. Sarcasm aside, I get what you're saying but not why?
- jincheker 12y agoTrust me, it will fail