Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[bpr]

On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 22:55:05 UTC, RhyS wrote:
> Be honest, how many people will use BetterC in production!

Much, MUCH more likely than that I would ever use full D with GC 
in production.

Really, if I want a language with a GC, D is not that good. Why 
wouldn't I use a JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala) or Go or 
something else? Notice how they all have precise GCs? Or maybe 
I'd use a functional language like OCaml or Haskell. Same deal, 
precise GC.

The truth is that D is by design NOT a replacement for C++ when a 
low level systems programming language must be used. DasBetterC 
is close to what I'd like when I have to use C++, but not yet 
ideal. I'm starting to think that Rust (or, C++ 17 and beyond) 
will win this battle because every other language shows up with 
stuff I don't want.