Necessities for Adoption of D

[Jesse Phillips]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:59:49 -0500, Burton Radons wrote:

> Hans W. Uhlig Wrote:
> 
>> 3) Good, native parallelism - With dual core, quad core, or in IBM's
>> Cell  processor Obscene core processors, none of the current C Syntax
>> family is parallelism handled natively and "well".
> 
> Do you mean in the library or in the language? I don't think D can be a
> magically-parallelising language; it's not constructed for it, and while
> it's a cool trick in those languages which do it I'd be worried about it
> not parallelising important code because of some functional test
> incorrectly failing and making it run sequentially.

Well that's what D2 is getting ready for, magically-paralleling programs. 
It already supports threading which is explicit. Granted its not the 
simplest to use, but I think paralleling will be evolving soon for D. 
(And by soon I mean later)