A Perspective on D from game industry

[c0de517e via Digitalmars-d]

> 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.

In my domain 4. is totally unnecessary, we use Visual Studio or 
we don't use an IDE on 99% of the projects. VisualD is the best 
thing that could have been done.
3. and 1. are quite unnecessary too, 2. of course is a must

But as I wrote I doubt that people will think at a point that 
yes, now D is 100% a better version of C++/Java/younameit, let's 
switch. I don't think it's how things go, I think successful 
languages find one thing a community really can't live without 
and get adopted there and from there expand. E.G. JavaScript is 
horribly broken, but some people really needed to be able to put 
code client-side on web pages, so now JS is everywhere...