C++ or D?

Godnyx rempas at tutanota.com
Sat Dec 19 09:06:33 UTC 2020


On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 09:35:10 UTC, hgriffin wrote:
> C++ is a really overloaded with features language. The burden 
> of backward compatibility and source compatibility with C 
> doesn't make it any better. But right now it's the only right 
> choice for development. There are plenty of libraries for many 
> common tasks, a big community and the most important thing - 
> C++ is evolving. Evolution is not as fast as we would want, but 
> it's here.
> On the other side, D is really pleasant to work with, it has 
> many good features and it can be a really convenient tool for 
> small projects. But at the same time it's just not mature and 
> not suitable for serious development. If you choose it, you'll 
> face with lots of issues without a solution. Nobody from the D 
> community would help you other than "just don't use const", "we 
> haven't developed a concensus yet", "we can't convince Walter", 
> etc. You can look at the D's evolution history and approximate 
> it into the future. Years go by, nothing's changing. It's 
> stagnating. The biggest D's problem is poor management and it's 
> not going to change in any foreseeable time.

Hi! Can you be more specific about the problems someone is gonna 
face with D that can't be fixed? This is very important for me 
because I'm planning to use D for development in the near (I wish 
near) future and I want to know what's going on. So yeah some 
examples will be appreciated!


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