Why is D unpopular, redux.

[FeepingCreature]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 13:09:54 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 11:38:55 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
>> I think we need a lot more people just jumping in and coding 
>> wildly ahead, and then sharing their results. An experimental 
>> branch? D3? Whatever must be changed to make that possible, I 
>> support it.
>
> Maybe Neat and SDC could be joined and form a foundation?
>
(Brief sidenote: Neat is a totally different compiler and 
language, it only steals some syntax from D. It's a project that 
is motivated by my experience with D, but it's not a D variant. 
It's doing its own thing, language-wise. Not to mention that it's 
far pre-1.0 in terms of D-equivalent features.)

> You need a solid modular architecture to support evolutionary 
> development. There is enough CPU power to take the overhead in 
> 2022. Designing architecture is hard on-paper work, not 
> something you evolve though. So that is where one should start.
>

Fully agreed, but don't underestimate how magical DMD's 
performance is. I wish neat's compiler was as speedy.