Is D Dead?

[Kenneth Dallmann]

On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 at 10:28:05 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 at 10:00:39 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>>
>> GC already is an optional feature in D.
>
> It depends what you mean by that, arrays and about all other 
> data structures rely on GC. Also entire Phobos require GC.
>
> D without any libraries does not rely on GC but then you have 
> removed many useful features of the language. The situation is 
> similar with C++ but there the library only depends on 
> malloc/free without any extra memory penalty and tracing 
> penalty.



     I just realized, hahaha. Duh. If D can call C or C++ 
libraries then
it doesn't even need a line of D API.

   I'd been reading comments about how API's depend on the GC, but 
on these comment boards
there are people trying to find a place in the world.

   I can say that I'm definitely not the most knowledgable 
programmer or best one, although
I might know a thing or two some others don't.  I think that 
thinking down on others,
or saying that they can't, is one way of making oneself feel 
better when facing insecurities.

   The opinion battle...  Well, D is among C++, Swift and 
Objective C.  I know C++
is a bit hairy, and Objective C, if I remember correctly, doesn't 
have complete error checking, Smalltalk based, more like a 
script.  D is one of the few languages that
has a full range of features.

C is very simple, that's one thing I've come to appreciate. And, 
with C structs you can
still do it all, just not as easily as in a class, but there's 
trade offs.  C can make
something like type checked JS, because you can implement 
prototyping with the structs.


I've had some ideas for a syntax that could hypothetically be a 
discretely simple notation. It would be
space blocked, like Python and I've thought of a trick or two to 
bring the needed symbols
down to a minimum. Also, it could use symbols like -> for 
conditionals, ~> for loops to increase lingual accessibility.  I 
have also thought of a scheme to eliminate try/catch blocks 
altogether, without losing any of their use.
If possible I would opt to eliminate the need for left side 
statement typing, while retaining strong typing.

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