My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Thu Nov 18 06:54:33 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 17 November 2021 at 20:36:10 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 21:00:48 UTC, Robert Schadek 
> wrote:
>> ### betterC
>>
>> betterC is, at best, a waste-by-product, if we have to use 
>> betterC to write
>> something for WASM, or anything significant, we might as well 
>> start learning
>> rust right now.
>>
>
> I think Zig will be a more powerful competitor in the future 
> than Rust. Rust appeals more to C++ programmers, but Zig is 
> targeting C programmers more. I've been looking at Zig lately, 
> and I have to say I think it's a very interesting language. It 
> has optional standard library and bring-your-own-allocator 
> memory management design, which is very tempting for C folks 
> who like to manage their own memory.

Zig is targeting former Objective-C developers with @ everywhere, 
has module system based on JavaScript AMD model with its @import, 
and doesn't fix use-after-free.

C folks like to manage their own memory and they get it wrong 
most of the time.

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