Vision document for H1 2018
rumbu
rumbu at rumbu.ro
Sun Mar 11 07:59:53 UTC 2018
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:10:28 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
> And personally, depending on the problem, C# is better to
> program in than D. I still don't know why C# programmers are
> willing to give up C# and prefer to use D.
> C# is vastly surperior for what it does.
>
Because, even the language creators seem to not recognize this, D
looks like C# with *native compilation*, the syntax is 95%
identical. Basically, if my source code doesn't use any .NET
framework function, it will compile successfully with dmd without
any (major) change.
I suppose that every C# programmer is enthusiastic on the first
contact with the D language, but fails to keep his enthusiasm
when he sees Phobos. C# programmer's mind is locked in the OOP
world and Phobos looks like a mess from his point of view.
The problem is that D stagnates and in the same time C# evolves.
Sometimes I feel like the C# language team is using D as
inspiration for the new features, starting with C# 7.0, a lot of
D concepts were introduced in the language: local functions, '_'
as digit separator, binary literals, ref returns, tuples,
templates, immutability. Guess what the next version of C# has on
the table: slices.
In the same time, D delegates new features (and sometime existing
ones) to library implementation, instead of assume them in the
language syntax.
My opinion is that the day when C# will compile to native (on any
platform), the C# developer interest in D will drop instantly.
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