D mentioned in Infoworld

bauss jj_1337 at live.dk
Tue Mar 27 12:17:44 UTC 2018


On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 11:28:18 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:46:03 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:31:34 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 06:42:29 UTC, Anton Fediushin 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being 
>>> talked about." Oscar Wilde
>>>
>>> "There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own 
>>> obituary." Brendan Behan
>>>
>>> Well, maybe the odd person will keep D in the back of his/her 
>>> mind, also it says:
>>>
>>> "But it is a convenient way to taste managed memory and all 
>>> of the “new” concepts without leaving familiar tool chains 
>>> and losing the C library."
>>>
>>> So someone who's interested in that (plus 
>>> C-interoperability!) might give D a shot. I was one of them a 
>>> long long time ago.
>>
>> Yes that is true, BUT it also gives the wrong portray of D, 
>> when in fact D could fit into most, if not all the categories 
>> listed, but it's portrayed as if it only fits for C/C++ 
>> programmers and again not as something serious, but as a 
>> semi-useless toy.
>
> I agree. However, these are misconceptions that D has had to 
> live with for years. It's hard to get rid of them. On the 
> bright side, D gets a mention while years ago it wouldn't even 
> have made it onto the list, which is a good sign, because it 
> shows that D is on the tech-radar. Apparently it is being 
> talked about and mentioned elsewhere in the tech-world and the 
> author felt he couldn't just leave it out.
>
> Also, as this thread shows, people take the language 
> descriptions in the article with a grain of salt anyway (and 
> rightly so!). So I think, all things considered, it's a good 
> sign that D got mentioned. I remember, in the old days people 
> would wonder why D wasn't on lists like that at all. So there's 
> some progress there.

Yes I agree it's great that D is talked about.

I just feel like someone is dropping salt into my coffee when 
it's misinterpreted.

I hope one day all the legacy, non-relevant issues D had will 
cease to exist and that it will be looked upon what it is 
__today__ instead of what it was in the __past__


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