Vision document for H1 2018

[rumbu]

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.