Why is D unpopular?
Paulo Pinto
pjmlp at progtools.org
Sat Apr 30 07:55:28 UTC 2022
On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 07:07:31 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 06:30:46 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 20:17:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I've seen endless lists of features people wanted to add to C
>>> and C++. None of them were CTFE. When we added it to D,
>>> people were excited and surprised.
>>
>> Not if they had a decent CS background, it is a well known
>> strategy for speeding up programs. Wikipedia also points out
>> a working C++ prototype from 2003, so I doubt they needed
>> outside influence to move in that direction.
>
> Sometimes a good idea from academia needs a practical example
> (D in this case) to show its usefulness before I sees
> widespread adoption. That doesn't mean that it was invented by
> D, or that there is no prior art.
Those pratical examples precede D's existence by decades.
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