D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 08:58:47 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Meanwhile kids, the future generation of developers, keeps 
> adopting the hardware and programming languages listed above,

D isn't useful for teaching kids programming.  Waaaay too 
complicated.  Most Arduino users, who build useful stuff, use C++.

But it is not a good strategy for D to become more like C++, too 
late. It would've been a good strategy 6 years ago to align D 
semantics with C++ and have full interop, but too late now.

D needs a feature-set that makes it attractive for people wanting 
to do high profile interactive stuff, like games, graphics 
editors, sound editors, high performance services. With useful 
optional GC and easy multithreading.

The current GC strategy is a dead end. No GC makes the language 
too much of a C++ with no real edge. D needs to offer something 
other languages do not, to offset the cost of learning the 
language complexities.