[OT] LLVM Community Code of Conduct

Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 16 07:36:53 PDT 2015


On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:25:07 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 08:29:18 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15 October 2015 at 09:09:22 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> I agree with logicchains. The impression people have is 
>>> exactly this. Go = neat and tidy, D = mess.
>>
>> Do people have the same impression from generic code in Go?
>
> It doesn't matter. It _feels_ neat, tidy and finished. We're 
> not talking about engineering, we're talking about subjective 
> human impressions.
>
> Apart from that, I think the fact that D is still not fit for 
> mobile platforms is a huge drawback. Loads of people want apps, 
> loads of people have some sort of smart phone, tablet or 
> whatever. Sometimes I think that we're getting sucked in by the 
> quick sand of language specs, pointers, GC etc. while important 
> issues like targeting mobile platforms are second class 
> citizens. Nim for example targeted mobile platforms right from 
> the start. So did Go. I cannot recommend D wholeheartedly 
> unless it also works on ARM at the click of a button. Please 
> correct me if I'm wrong here, but mobile is not yet 100%.

Fwiw I think it's okay on ARM linux.  I have compiled and run 
small programs on my phone (a oneplusone).  Thanks to dicebot you 
can just install with yaourt.  That's not what you meant of 
course, and Android ARM seems a little further away.  But in case 
anyone else sees this and doesn't bother trying.



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