Thoughts about D

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Nov 30 02:14:20 UTC 2017


On 11/29/2017 8:57 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> BetterC is a door-opener for an awful lot of areas D has been excluded
>> from, and requiring druntime is a barrier for that.
> Doesn't this mean that we should rather focus our efforts on improving
> druntime instead of throwing out the baby with the bathwater with
> BetterC?

What BetterC does is shine a spotlight on these issues. They've also come up 
with Ilya Yaroshenko's work.


> For example, the way assert() works, if indeed it's overblown, then
> shouldn't we rather fix/improve it?

I've tried, and met a lot of resistance.


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