New language based on D

[jmh530]

On Tuesday, 17 November 2020 at 05:50:27 UTC, dangbinghoo wrote:
> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 12:25:48 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 15:28:44 UTC, Faux Amis wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I think it is too early for that as my project is not yet 
>> started, and it may not have any traction. I believe that if I 
>> can create solid documentation then it might make a difference 
>> but we will see.
>>
>> Fortunately or not - I have limited time - so I won't be 
>> making changes to D other than very simple patches to switch 
>> off some things. I simply cannot afford to spend time on 
>> maintaining a different code base. My main focus will be to 
>> create documentation.
>>
>> I can probably do one thing - guarantee that the new language 
>> is a proper subset of D and that any code in laser-D is 
>> guaranteed to build with dmd, ldc, gdc.
>
> people want betterC, and if we can add Interface to current D's 
> (betterC) struct (which works like Rust's trait), it would be 
> more attractive! ^_^
>
> ----
> binghoo dang

You might find Atila Neves's tardy [1] or Jean-Louis Leroy's open 
methods [2] libraries interesting. I don't know if they work with 
betterC though.


[1] https://github.com/atilaneves/tardy
[2] https://github.com/jll63/openmethods.d