My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Timon Gehr]

On 19.11.21 03:36, forkit wrote:
> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 00:38:15 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>
>> I think that statement itself is deceptive. C is not all that close to 
>> how modern hardware actually operates.
> 
> I mean the abstraction of the C memory model...
> 
> i.e. " ..one or more contiguous sequences of bytes. Each byte in memory 
> has a unique address." This is still an appropriate abstraction, even in 
> modern times.
> ...

Depends on what you want to do.

> When working at a low-level, this is still, even today, an appropriate 
> and suitable abstraction, on which to build your ideas.
> ...

Debatable, but this is not even what C gives you, so...

> No language can model 'actual hardware', and even if it could, the human 
> brain could never use such a language.
> 
> 

You are moving the goalposts. There were two statements:

- "..because we see everything with its real nature in C"
- "Any langauge that tries to improve on C, no matter how worthwhile the 
effort, is inherently deceptive."

Those are not useful statements. They are not true.