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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/13/12 10:45 AM, Zach the Mystic wrote:
> On 2/10/12 4:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> The last thing we need is balkanization of the community. You are of
>> course free to initiate such a project but if you care about D it would
>> be great to apply your talent in a different direction.
>
> I think this might be going a little bit too far. In other posts on this
> thread, is has been clearly shown that D isn't afraid run with a design
> even though the implementation may be quite a ways into the future. As
> you yourself said, "@safe needs more work".
>
> The reason I'm saying this is because I don't think that a subset of D
> which is good for tiny devices breaks the language itself. And it would
> also showcase D's versatility. In other words, the community may
> actually *gain* followers when people using other languages start to
> think to themselves, "You know, I can't do that in my language, not even
> in principle. That's pretty cool."

I just find it difficult to imagine things that way. Tiny devices are 
confined to small programs by definition, and at that magnitude the 
field is quite leveled; for a 3K-lines program, C is just fine and many 
of D's (and other languages') advantages are at best minor.

Andrei