Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Patrick Schluter]

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 15:00:09 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 08:15:04 UTC, Dan Partelly 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 01:12:53 UTC, Dylan Graham 
>> wrote:
>>> language it should be, not the language some C++ programmer 
>>> wants but is never going to use anyway.
>>
>> Ironically, D is so close to beeing the language a C++ 
>> programmer would really use that you can smell it. It doesnt 
>> have to bend, since it got so close with a lot of good 
>> decisions. D is the first language Im aware of which  has the 
>> potential to satisfy the needs of a very large portion of the 
>> market,
>
> How much further does D have to go to start snatching C++'s 
> userbase?
>
> In my honest opinion, D doesn't offer as much of an advantage 
> over C++ as it does C# and Java. Currently D has much better 
> template syntax, modules (although that idea is being floated 
> in the C++ community), but what else? The C++ juggernaut keeps 
> piling on new features every 3 years. It's hard for D to stay 
> in the lead (that is if it is).

That's the biggest problem with C++, they pile on relentlessly 
half baked feature after half baked feature in a big dump that no 
one with a life can ever grasp.

>
> I've been writing a voxel engine in C#. Writing anything high 
> performance in C# becomes non-idiomatic, you're locked into OOP 
> and performance sucks.
>
> D offers far more features C# and Java. As a result, I think D 
> would have a greater appeal on those audiences.

The big issues with Java and C# are the required infrastructure 
for deployment. They could be the best languages since sliced 
bread, they would still be annoying to deploy as the runtime is 
an emulator.

I ported 1 app from Java to D. It was so unspectacular (or better 
said it was spectacularly easy) that you're probably right. 
Reaching to Java devs is a good idea. The advantage of Java 
though, is not the language but the huge, huge, huge existing 
libraries and packages and know how. This will be difficult to 
overcome  for any language.