Plan for D

[dogman]

On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 21:24:40 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
> Let me put it this way, a couple of years ago Facebook played 
> with D, now they have this to tell about Rust.
>

I disagree with this. Facebook chose it because they want to run 
a safe stable language for their mercurial clone. There are lot 
of thoughts, support, ads by mozilla folks for this. Why didnt 
facebook chose Go for this ? For their case GC was no go. For 
Remedy did we analyse what went wrong ? Do we know why facebook 
didnt D after Andrei left ? Did we ask what programming community 
want. Definitely we cant satisfy everyone for all the feature but 
atleast we should play with  some of our  strengths.
Why would someone use D for any with GC.
Go - has GC, easy, good libraries, google backing
Rust - safety, mozilla backing
swift - apple backing, easy

Lets not be in own echo chamber. I feel D can push itself as a 
simple way of doing memory safety and extension to C/C++/python 
instead of a rewrite. Let advertize as a language which can be 
simple like python and fast as C. C++ rust interop doesnt see 
easy.
a. Safe language
b. Good tooling
c. Good interop with C/C++
d. Flexible to use GC/no GC.