"Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead."

[Chris]

On Friday, 3 May 2019 at 02:25:47 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:

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>
> I think the powers that be are right about D, that we should 
> strive for fewer coarse language features and more finer 
> language features that would allow us to implement something 
> equivalent to those coarse language features in the library.  
> Then, like Arduino, instead of exposing complex language 
> features to the users, encapsulate them in the library's 
> abstractions so domain users can just focus on understanding 
> the API (which should be a model of their domain), and spend 
> less cognitive effort understanding the intricacies of the 
> language it was implemented in.
>
> Mike

Yep. Look at this, for example, they're using a Kotlin based DSL:

[For Developers] https://furhat.io/

https://www.furhatrobotics.com/

I think D "has it all", but they can't see the wood for the 
trees. What D needs is a _clean_ and _stable_ implementation with 
a (small) set of the most powerful features. Add to this D's 
C/C++/ObjC interop and you have a very powerful tool. But you 
will need a proper tool chain too (something like Gradle). Have a 
look at Kotlin/Native where you have no JVM/Java libs available, 
it's already very powerful and Kotlin is nowhere near as bloated 
with features as D.