Help me decide D or C

[bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 22:49:10 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 22:16:42 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> What is your goal? In my opinion, learning C is a waste of 
>> time in 2019 unless you have something specific in mind 
>> related to a job. C is mostly "fun with segmentation faults". 
>> Most of your time is not spent solving problems. If you want 
>> to be productive, choose D, Go, Rust, C++, or just about 
>> anything but C.
>
> Interesting because you asked his goal and no matter what you 
> pretty much just said to avoid C. So why the goal matters here?

"In my opinion, learning C is a waste of time in 2019 unless you 
have something specific in mind related to a job."

> Kernel, embedded systems, LIBs (In fact there is libspng right 
> now on front page of Reddit - /r/programming) that still uses C.

That's very specialized, but sure, some things are still written 
in C.

> For example there is a lot of things with those languages (D or 
> C++) like attributes: scope, ref, pure, share and so on that is 
> useful but not for beginner.

You can write, say, a CGI app using D without having to get into 
all of that. I generally don't mess with attributes, templates, 
or any of that cognitively challenging stuff, and I've been 
writing D code for six years. Someone that has programmed before 
could work through Adam's cookbook or Mike's book easily.