HAharry8·Jan 31, 2018
legal D:
if(foo)
bar();
baz();
A language design bug copied from C. A feature that is good only to add a class of bugs to programs in your language with zero benfit. Perl wasn't tasteless enough to copy that. D designers were, does that convince you they have the right taste to design your systems language?
Alexandrescou is exactly the kind of C++ person D is designed for (and now by). Is the code more important or the data transformation being performed by that code? Garbage collection, same as golang with the same perception that it's a replacement for java/python/ruby/perl not C nor C++ - this will be the perception and they will say "yeah but ..." sure, but that perception is not devoid of merit. "You don't need ..." nup, as an engineer I decide that, I don't want it imposed.
Low level access to raw hardware, zero
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cost convenient abstractions, no runtime cost imposed by the language, consistent, easy to get right (or at least harder to get wrong, less gotchas). Whatever replaces C & C++ will tick those boxes unless hardware changes dramatically. People believe that D doesn't.
Then there's just practical stuff like using facebook's linter - well you can't, it just doesn't work. https://github.com/facebookarchive/flint
Is the D version even there? Too hard, too alpha, the overhead of a new language needs more to sell it. I haven't yet programmed a line of Rust or Go but both look more compelling.