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[Lance Bachmeier]

On Monday, 12 October 2026 at 06:32:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/11/2026 4:16 PM, strawberry9 wrote:
>> I got AI to write a how language specification and compiler 
>> .etc... etc.. in less that a week ( 
>> https://github.com/strawberry9/CobaltC )
>
> You and Rikki! I expect there will be many more.

I think you're out of luck with respect to preventing people from 
inventing their own syntax for D. It's such a trivial programming 
problem to transform custom syntax into valid D that you can vibe 
code a preprocessor with a local LLM running on a CPU (I've done 
it). At some point I will stop writing pure D syntax, even if I 
share the pure D code with others.

I find D to be a compelling target language because it's fast, it 
has a GC, it can go low-level, it's supported on many platforms, 
it has good language interoperability, etc. But I don't have a 
reason to stick with the out-of-the-box syntax any longer.