Talk on what a systems programming language needs to replace C

[Chris]

On Monday, 26 August 2019 at 21:48:45 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Monday, 26 August 2019 at 16:24:30 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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>
> There is a lot of Rust click bait in this forum and some "look 
> Rust can do this and that, we must have it too". I think that D 
> should follow its own path and should not trying to ape Rust in 
> every fashion.

I know, it's annoying. But a while ago it was Go and before that 
C++ (among other things). Every few years (or even every year) D 
is chasing after a new "must have" feature. And usually it's 
done, before one could possibly know if feature X will work for 
Go or Rust. I'd say relax a little bit and do your own thing, and 
maybe later you can see what features you could incorporate 
(that's what C++ does, I think). This "must have" mentality does 
a lot of damage to D, old bugs and shortcomings are neglected, 
there are new half-baked features, an outsider only sees a mess 
and insiders think "Ah, WTF!" fearing their code might break, 
because D now has to work with feature X. D will never learn.