D is our last hope

[monkyyy]

On Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 17:47:52 UTC, DLearner wrote:
> 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.

Everything here means being a c/zig replacement, c++ replacement, 
python replacement and for the hell of it rust replacement

and no, there is just no way to do that; the rust replacement 
plan of making a """"borrow checker"""" went nowhere, importC 
isn't going to implement a 1 to 1 preprecosser so it won't ever 
be useful and zig must be an ok c compiler given what people say 
is done.

D should focus on being a c++ replacement; we have better 
templates they just aren't well used by the std and it's not 
being communicated.