Is D really that bad?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 09:51:04 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> And still, people still think Zig is better for some reason.

I don't think it makes much sense to talk about better or worse 
without a use case. Zig seems to aim for embedded like settings, 
but I don't like the language design regardless, as of today. But 
that could change.


> Yes, D has it's flaws, true. But it's far from unfixable? Or is 
> that what people believe?

You cannot predict the future, but if you go 10 years back and 
identify things that ought to be fixed (in the sense that it 
would make the language more broadly appealing) and find that 
those issues are still there, then there must be something making 
it difficult to address. Could be the current compiler code base, 
could be other things.

Keeping the same process makes it improbable that there will be a 
significant change, for good or bad.

> Forget about Jai, Odin, Beef and all those languages.

Why forget about Jai? If it gains traction in a specific domain 
like games, why not use it?

(There are also plenty of others in the works: Carbon, Circle, 
C++2.0, V etc)