Article discussing Go, could well be D

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Jun 16 14:19:58 PDT 2011


On 2011-06-09 01:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/8/11 4:38 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad
>> <public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hudvd/
>> the_go_programming_language_or_why_all_clike/
>>
>> The author presents a "wish list" for his perfect systems programming
>> language, and claims that Go is the only one (somewhat) fulfilling it.
>> With the exception of item 7, the list could well be an
>> advertisement for
>> D.
>>
>> -Lars
>>
>>
>> I found the comments on the Hacker News post
>> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2631964> about this article more
>> interesting.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Brad Anderson
>
> Agreed. The top poster does repeat a point made by others: D does fail
> on point 7. Allow me to paste it:
>
> =============
> 7. Module Library and Repository
> I want all the niceties I have grown used to in scripting languages
> built-in or part of the standard library. A public package repository
> with a decent portable package manager is even better. Typical packages
> include internet protocols, parsing of common syntaxes, GUI, crypto,
> common mathematical algorithms, data processing and so on. (Example:
> Perl 5 CPAN)
> =============
>
> That's it. We need a package management expert on board to either revive
> dsss or another similar project, or define a new package manager
> altogether. No "yeah I have some code somewhere feel free to copy from
> it"; we need professional execution. Then we need to make that tool part
> of the standard distribution such that library discovery, installation,
> and management is as easy as running a command.
>
> I'm putting this up for grabs. It's an important project of high impact.
> Wondering what you could do to help D? Take this to completion.
>
>
> Andrei

I'm already working on a package management tool for D.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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