d future or plans for d3

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/18/2011 01:09 AM, Ruslan Mullakhmetov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to ask you about D future, i mean next big iteration of D and
> propose some new feature, agent-based programming. Currently, after
> introducing C++11 i see the only advantages of D over C++11 except
> syntax sugare is garbage collector and modules.
>

C++11 does not change the relation between D and C++ a lot. Why do you 
think it does?

> I recentrly attended student school (workshop) on multi-agent systems
> (MAS)and self-organizing sysetems. I was really impressed and thought
> that this probably is the silver bullet which Brucks declared to be
> absent. I mean agent-based programming as foundation of self-organzing
> systems. If you are interested you can find a lot of information by
> googling.
>
> So I would like to get your feedback to introduce new paradigm, paradigm
> of agent programming into D.
>
> Actually, I'm not deep into MAS, but as far as i know it's just
> autonomous class, i.e. class that has it's own independent context of
> execution that can communicate with other parties (agents) and can
> affect on environment if any (like ant).
>
> So it would be nice to have this in language core/library.
>
> There is erlang that already satisfied all requirements (as far as i
> know) of MAS language. So the question is does D need to take this
> paradigm? - Or concentrate on its current paradigms? The only advatnage
> ovder erlang i see is that D propose itself as embedded programming
> language which erlang do not satisfy (am i right?).
>
> So i need your feedback on the following:
> (i) do you think that D needs to adsorb agent-programming paradigm

The language does not have to be changed to get that to work.

> (ii) can it benefit D

Yes.

> comparing to other modern languages

IMO that is not a very important question. It is not a contest.