D as a Better C

twkrimm via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 24 10:16:21 PDT 2017


On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 03:31:02 UTC, Swoorup Joshi wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 17:44:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 13:12:04 Mike Parker via 
>> Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I confess that I tend to think of betterC as a waste of time. 
>> Clearly, there are folks who find it useful, but it loses so 
>> much that I see no point in using it for anything unless I 
>> have no choice. As long as attempts to improve it don't 
>> negatively impact normal D, then I don't really care what 
>> happens with it, but it's clearly not for me.
>>
>> And it _is_ possible to use full-featured D from C/C++ when D 
>> does not control main. It's just more of a pain.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Totally agree with this.

I disagree, I believe BetterC is worth the time.


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