We are forking D

[monkyyy]

On Sunday, 7 January 2024 at 21:12:11 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 January 2024 at 17:47:37 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>
>> zig will probably win the c killer race
>
> The race is over for a language like Zig that requires you to 
> learn a new syntax and do things differently. Rust has the 
> users that don't want GC, and Go has those that do. D has the 
> advantage that you can write C code as you've always done, 
> mixing in conveniences as you go. Predictions are always tough 
> when they involve the future, but it's hard to see Zig gaining 
> much traction when Rust and Go are established in that area. (I 
> haven't looked at Zig recently. Maybe things have changed. I 
> couldn't find a reason to use it when I investigated earlier.)

Rust is a c++ competitor like you cant be that ugly and complex 
without going for lots of abstractions(also it will fail).

Go is to narrow and owned by google and etc etc etc.