It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

Stanislav Blinov stanislav.blinov at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 22:29:56 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 15 November 2018 at 19:54:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:17:43AM -0800, Ali Çehreli via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:

>> "We don't want C++ become like COBOL." My answer is, C++ is 
>> heading exactly the same place not through natural death but 
>> through those improvements.
> [...]
>
> And that's the problem with C++: because of the insistence on 
> backward compatibility, the only way forward is to engineer 
> extremely delicate and elaborate solutions to work around 
> fundamental language design flaws...

Funny you should say that, as that same problem already holds D 
back quite a lot. The Argument No.1 against pretty much any 
change in recent years is "it will break too much code".

> Writing C++ code therefore becomes an exercise in navigating 
> the obstacle course of an overly-complex and fragile language...

Same will happen to D. Or rather, it already has.


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