Jonathan Blow demo #2

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On Friday, 12 December 2014 at 11:58:04 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 12/11/2014 10:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> D already does this. It's been said before, Jonathan is 
>> reinventing D,
>> piece by piece :-)
>
> What does that mean, it's been said?
> Didn't anyone actually try to tell him about D?

I did in a quite long e-mail. Here is his answer:

> I agree that D is a much better language than C++ but I don't 
> believe it is quite the right thing. I am going to keep doing 
> talks, and the further talks will go into more language 
> specifics, and I think you'll see that eventually it shapes up 
> into a pretty different language.

> That said, I do think D has a lot of value, and if the world 
> switched over to D from C++ tonight, I think everyone would be 
> a lot better off.

> I am well aware of how much work it is to make a new language 
> and get it adopted. It is a big job for sure! But, part of my 
> goal is to rally the big game development community to do that 
> big job.

I feel like he is a very capable programmer that simply want to 
do his thing, like many of us do :)