A Perspective on D from game industry

[Wanderer via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 11:28:12 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html?m=1
>
> The arguments against D are pretty weak if I'm honest, but I 
> think it's important we understand what people think of D. I 
> can confirm this sentiment is fairly common in the industry.
>
> Watch out for the little jab at Andrei :-P

My opinion: if you want D to smoothly replace both C++ and Java, 
simply do the following:

1. Sane language specification (which doesn't allow a slice of a 
stack-allocated array to escape to other part of a program, 
doesn't allow an object to contain garbage under ANY 
circumstances etc).

2. Workable compiler (that doesn't crash on 20% of code it tries 
to compile :-P).

3. Stable, efficient and well-documented runtime library, 
including collection classes, IO, date/time, concurrency, GUI, 
graphics, sound etc.

4. A well-designed IDE written purely in D, which allows analysis 
and refactoring (like IntelliJ IDEA which is written in Java), 
free of course.

Believe me, after the step 4 is finished, MANY, if not most, of 
C++ and Java programmers will switch to D in no time. The 
language already provides many nice improvements, it's just not 
practical to use D yet (because RTL is still under development, 
no IDE etc).