Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 12 03:50:14 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 00:34:12 UTC, sarn wrote:
>
> Scheme is a really nice, elegant language that's fun to hack 
> with, but at the end of the day, if people were writing Nginx, 
> or the Windows kernel, or HFT systems in Scheme, you can bet 
> programmers would be pushing pretty hard for special exceptions 
> and hooks and stuff for better performance or lower-level 
> access, and eventually you'd end up with another C.
>

Honestly after writing a toy Scheme interpreter, I've come to 
think much more highly of Javascript.


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