D is our last hope

[DLearner]

On Friday, 8 December 2023 at 09:06:34 UTC, Hors wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 at 21:26:05 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
[...]
> This is one of biggest mistakes in dlang's design. They tried 
> to be "everything" (being both garbage collected and not, being 
> both safe and unsafe system language...), it backfired because 
> as you said, you always need to exclude some people or features.
[...]

FWIW, IMO, apart from the development and maintenance effort, 
there is nothing wrong in 'trying to be everything'.  Indeed it's 
a laudable effort.

There (was) a specific problem with the GC debate, in that there 
appeared to be a real effort to 'force' developers into the GC 
camp, rather than simply presenting it as an option (and I 
personally think that for business application programming it is 
a very good idea).
Trying to force people to do anything, even if you sincerely 
believe in what you are advocating, is simply a bad idea.