Plan for D

[dogman]

On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 21:38:51 UTC, dogman wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 21:24:40 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>> Let me put it this way, a couple of years ago Facebook played 
>> with D, now they have this to tell about Rust.
>>
>
> I disagree with this. Facebook chose it because they want to 
> run a safe stable language for their mercurial clone. There are 
> lot of thoughts, support, ads by mozilla folks for this. Why 
> didnt facebook chose Go for this ? For their case GC was no go. 
> For Remedy did we analyse what went wrong ? Do we know why 
> facebook didnt D after Andrei left ? Did we ask what 
> programming community want. Definitely we cant satisfy everyone 
> for all the feature but atleast we should play with  some of 
> our  strengths.
> Why would someone use D for any with GC.
> Go - has GC, easy, good libraries, google backing
> Rust - safety, mozilla backing
> swift - apple backing, easy
>
> Lets not be in own echo chamber. I feel D can push itself as a 
> simple way of doing memory safety and extension to C/C++/python 
> instead of a rewrite. Let advertize as a language which can be 
> simple like python and fast as C. C++ rust interop doesnt see 
> easy.
> a. Safe language
> b. Good tooling
> c. Good interop with C/C++
> d. Flexible to use GC/no GC.

To the community, sorry am not trying to a$$hole. I just want 
this language and community to grow and flourish. I wish Andrei, 
Walter come up with Q&A to do a postmortem of the issues they 
faced and what we can do for it. I wish to help on small tasks 
whatever I can. I used to do lot of c++ and python and thought of 
a language somewhat like D. Then I saw D and always wished, if I 
could write in D daily. D on android, D on linux kernel/EBPF, D 
with WASM.