Better branding of -betterC

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 29 October 2020 at 14:28:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 October 2020 at 11:50:12 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I was wondering if it worthwhile branding -betterC differently 
>> - e.g. use a brand such as 'micro-D' or some nicer name. That 
>> is, give it a new identity that highlights that it not just 
>> better C  - but a D version without GC.
>
> I think it's a bad, bad, bad idea to put any emphasis on 
> BetterC other than as a tool to help in porting C or C++ code 
> to D, or to integrate D into existing C and C++ projects. I see 
> too many people reaching for it first thing, probably out of a 
> misguided GC phobia. D is the language we need to be promoting. 
> BetterC was intended for a specific purpose. Beyond that, it's 
> a crippled D. If some people prefer to use it that way, fine, 
> but we shouldn't encourage it.

Indeed, what I appreciate in the Java Panama/Valhala efforts, C# 
7+ memory handling, Swift and Go, is the attitute to improve 
their low level programming capabilities without making 
concessions to the anti-GC folks.

D has more to gain by fixing the corner cases in the language, 
compiler/library bugs, and having a good library ecosystem than 
trying to please everyone.