Amber

[Leandro Lucarella]

renoX, el 27 de December a las 10:16 me escribiste:
> On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 00:34:29 UTC, Kelly wrote:
> >On Saturday, 22 December 2012 at 21:02:21 UTC, Faux Amis wrote:
> >>On 21/12/2012 19:02, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> >>>Dear D community,
> >>>
> >>>I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is
> >>>a
> >>>programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler
> >>>written
> >>>using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of
> >>>code and
> >>>documention is alpha (or pre-alpha).
> >>>
> >>
> >>I would love to read a bit about the differences between D1 and
> >>Amber.
> >
> >
> >Might be incomplete, but here is the start of a list:
> >
> >https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber/wiki/Diff_D1
> 
> I do not want to sound dismissive, but IMHO the list of differences
> is a bit "small" to start a new language..

The real difference is against D2, since D1 is considered a dead language
officially now. I think Amber tries to be another evolution of D1, a little
less radical than D2.

Maybe you could see D1 as C and D2/Amber as C++/Objective C (I don't want to
suggest any specific mapping between them :P).

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