My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

Gleb gleb.tsk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 11:38:58 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 24 November 2021 at 10:40:39 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 November 2021 at 10:23:22 UTC, Gleb wrote:
>>
>> There are no full-fledged signals --- slots with the ability 
>> to exchange
>> data between threads (in the style of Qt) => whole familiar 
>> sections
>> immediately drop out.
>>
>
> D has a native message system between threads. Qt signals is a 
> special case as it also can be used in the same thread and then 
> it is just a function call. Also there are syntax sugar for 
> declaring Qt signals in C++.
>
> I don't know any language that natively implements signals as 
> Qt does.

And yes, it is absolutely certain that Phobos should include a 
message loop, highly desirable in the form of slot -- signals.



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