D mentioned and criticized

Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 17 04:58:57 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 01:29:15 UTC, Xinok wrote:
> On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 18:25:23 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> I had a look at Loci, more specifically the language goals[1]:
>> ...
>
> I've been skimming through the docs and found one mention of D:
>
> http://loci-lang.org/Exceptions.html#scope-exit-block
>
> It seems to me that Loci is not a very "inspired" language 
> meaning that it doesn't take inspiration from many other 
> languages. The docs only ever refer to some classic mainstream 
> languages including C++, Obj-C, Java, C#, with a hint of D. 
> There are a few nice aspects such as modules, algebraic types, 
> tuples, and concepts. But then I feel like it takes too much 
> from C++ and mimics Java-esque OOP and concepts. I'm not saying 
> these are bad things but there isn't much that makes Loci stand 
> out as a programming language.

Nim is much more interesting a.


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