Where will D sit in the web service space?

karabuta via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 13 06:24:25 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 14 July 2015 at 16:25:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:

> I think neither, but what I have alluded to in this thread. A 
> lack of decision making regarding picking an application domain 
> that is large enough to sustain an ecosystem of libraries, and 
> going 100% for honing the feature set towards that domain. 
> "Possible" is not good enough.
>

>
> I think the rest comes when you have the best feature set for a 
> particular domain and a polished compiler/runtime. So yeah, 
> maybe Game clients is the best bet, since you don't have to 
> change the semantics too much (low latency GC and linear typing 
> would take time to work in) and games benefits from C++/iOS 
> interop. Indie games have low adoption threshold and could work 
> as marketing.

The Gaming industry is quiet a path to go on. Expecially since no 
language actually focus on that area.

For now, I see some new projects making good moves to writing 
gaming tools (I dislike bindings to C++).



More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list