Laser-D announcement

[Kapendev]

On Saturday, 1 August 2026 at 06:49:51 UTC, Kapendev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 July 2026 at 19:56:31 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 29 July 2026 at 17:57:14 UTC, antonio wrote:
>>> Glad to see UFCS survived.  Though with optional parentheses 
>>> rejected, the chaining style loses some of its appeal. Was 
>>> that trade-off deliberate?
>>>
>>
>> My thinking was that the parenthesis make it clear that its a 
>> function call and not field access.
>
> Yes, but then we also have `object.thing`. The `object` could 
> be a pointer or a simple value. My senior told me that being 
> explicit is ALWAYS good, escpecially with the billion dollar 
> mistake that are pointers, so I propose we change the pointer 
> case to: `object->thing`.
>
> Much explicit. Very readable. A true C language successor.

Ignoring my above meme post, I do think that the `->` operator is 
not that bad. I can see why some C boomers would like it.