Could D be used by Jonathan Blow rather jai language?

Bruce Carneal bcarneal at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 00:22:15 UTC 2020


On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 23:19:50 UTC, Ethan wrote:
> On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 22:09:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> +1, I like that.
>
> Separately. Programmers that have no interest in D that I've 
> spoken to, when I say "first class types are being pursued" 
> they immediately have interest.
>
> This isn't the thread for it. But there's _SERIOUSLY_ a big win 
> to getting that in as a feature.

+1

Templates are great when used declaratively, as simple patterns 
that get filled in (aka templates).  They can be pressed in to 
service as "functions" but it's a bad fit.  Type functions would 
help, a lot, but there's more.




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