Plan for D

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Fri May 21 10:05:48 UTC 2021


On Friday, 21 May 2021 at 08:51:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
> On Friday, 21 May 2021 at 08:43:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Do like those projects, the powers at the steering wheel 
>> should stick with the original design and push it no matter 
>> what, instead of switching direction every couple of years and 
>> never finishing it.
>
> There is no future for a glorified scripting language, there 
> are too many powerful alternatives for scripting. That is 
> effectively proposing long tail decay as a strategy.
>
> D has to support those that use D for scriptlike programming 
> today, but there is no future in it, if that is all it aspires 
> to do well.

Something like gVisor, runc, Android GPU Inspector or USB Armory 
could have been made better in D, but I digress, apparently it is 
just glorified scripting.




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