New competitor to D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 20 July 2022 at 13:46:25 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> It's clearly Rust--.

They already have a bunch of fans that defends poorly thought out 
aspects of the syntax that a usability analysis ought to have 
uncovered. So I think we can expect that Google will move ahead 
with it… as it is already «popular» on social media…

Reminds me of how Google created Dart as dynamic language, then 
as an afterthought made a U-turn and redesigned it to become more 
like Java. Or how Go doesn't have exceptions, then added a 
hackish «panic» solution . How they didn't have generics, then 
added a weak generics design many years later. Also the Go 
dynamic arrays uses slices that will split when you extend it, so 
that you have two arrays instead of one as a surprise. (D also 
has this flaw).

Designers are often not good at being objective about their own 
design, so I would expect a large organisation like Google to use 
usability experts and make sure to get an external usability 
evaluation and also an external critical examination of semantics 
before the design is presented to the world.

Makes you wonder what the internal project management is like?