[OT] Unity's HPC#

Dukc ajieskola at gmail.com
Thu May 16 08:17:26 UTC 2019


On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 15:15:26 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> Trying to make a push into the web space as a way to increase D 
> usage is a complete waste of time. That is extremely 
> competitive, with language after language doing the same 
> things, and no hope for a new language to gain interest.
>
> Having said that, there is nothing stopping anyone that thinks 
> D offers big advantages over the alternatives from creating 
> something and making their billions. This has come up many 
> times. I don't understand what the complaint is. Nobody's 
> stopping anyone from working on it. You don't need permission.

It depends. I agree that if one looks purely from web programming 
perspective, all other considerations ditched, there are probably 
better alterantives in other relatively new languages like F#, 
Scala, Kotlin or Go.

The reason one might choose D is that if it still stays 
reasonably close to the best ones, you can use the same language 
for systems programming. With the alternatives I mentioned, one 
might need to use two langugages when there's need to do, for 
example, data crunching. This can be a bigger disadvantage for 
some than the lack of some web related bells and whistles in D.

So we have little hope if we try to market ourselves as with 
"better" MVC models or database automation. But by talking about 
our low-level fallback feature, we offer something the majority 
of others do not.


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