Is D right for me?

[Daniel Gibson]

Andrei Alexandrescu schrieb:
> On 10/12/10 7:01 CDT, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
>>
>> On 12-ott-10, at 13:04, Denis Koroskin wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:32:55 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/11/2010 12:38 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>>>>> But parts of phobos are deprecated or will be deprecated and there
>>>>> still
>>>>> is no alternative for them.
>>>>> That may prevent people from writing "real" projects in D2 (or D at
>>>>> all)
>>>>> - who wants to use classes that will be deprecated soon?
>>>>> Sure, that old stuff will not be removed and can still be used, but I
>>>>> personally feel a bit uncomfortable with using deprecated code.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed. Maybe this is a good time to sart making a requirements list
>>>> for streams. What are the essential features/feature groups?
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> For me, I/O should be scalable (and thus support async operations) so
>>> I came up with my own implementation.
>>> I've tried building it on top of std.concurrency, but it doesn't scale
>>> either. So, once again, I had to implement my own message passing
>>> mechanism. I can implement existing std.concurrency interface on top
>>> of my own one without sacrificing anything, but not vice-versa).
>>
>> I very much agree that IO should be scalable.
>> In my opinion this is possible if one has a robust framework for smp
>> parallelization.
>> This is what I have been working on with blip http://dsource.org/blip .
> 
> Seeing your recent comments about fixing druntime, I wanted to take a 
> look at this other work but the page seems to be in error. Did you 
> migrate blip somewhere else?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei
> 
http://dsource.org/projects/blip (he forgot projects/ in the URL)