World needs a safe language

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 9 April 2021 at 21:37:51 UTC, Independent wrote:
> World needs a safe language statically typed language without 
> GC but simpler than rust. D's biggest win against rust is that 
> it has much better interop than rust with C++. If we make D a 
> no GC,safe language it can easily beat rust. GC can be 
> optional. No company wants to rip and replace existing c++ 
> code. Why would some want to use D since go with GC is already 
> there which is backed by a big corp. Their marketing made GC 
> good. However good D is compared to Go, its hard to suceed with 
> GC. This is just my opinion. well wisher.

Here is C# beating C++ on gRPC parsing, because .NET team started 
to be more serious about their optimisation efforts,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/grpc-performance-improvements-in-net-5/

Not only that, they started to port runtime code from C++ into 
C#, an endeavour that they keep on ramping up on .NET 6.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-3/

Unity keeps their effort to migrate core engine code from C++ 
into HPC#, a C# subset which is basically like using D with 
@nogc, while leaving the remaining part of the engine to regular 
C#, just like regular D.

What D needs is fixing bugs, finishing some language feature and 
be the best at its thing.

Doing a D vs Rust vs C++ feature check list, won't go anywhere, 
mainstream languages get picked due to ecosystems and OS SDKs, 
not due to whatever language feature makes to the frontage of 
hacker news.