A Perspective on D from game industry

deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 18 11:17:02 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 16:55:53 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 16:19:25 UTC, c0de517e wrote:
>> 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...
>
> I think this is actually a flawed mentality that causes a lot 
> of long-term problems to all programmers. By resisting to 
> switch to languages simply because those are good we inevitably 
> get to the point of switching because it is forced by some 
> corporation that has bucks to create an intrusive ecosystem. 
> And despite the fact language itself can be horrible no choice 
> remains by then.

This is, but that's how it works nevertheless. You don't succeed 
by arguing what the reality should be, but by accepting what it 
is and act accordingly.


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