I'm curious if anybody else here has ever looked at or used the D programming language. Personally, it's my favorite programming language and I find it much more enjoyable to use than any other language. It was designed to be a successor of C and C++, although it's not backwards compatible and a very different language. It's a modern language in many aspects including garbage collection, exception handling, modules, dynamic arrays, associative arrays, functional programming (pure, immutable, shared, etc.), and much more. At the same time, it's a systems programming language - It compiles to machine code, supports pointers, inline assembly, and is fully linkable with C.
While the language itself is great, there are other problems. There isn't a huge number of libraries available for D, and many are out of date or not of the best quality. There are two standard libraries, the official Phobos and the unofficial Tango, which causes some fragmentation in the community. No IDE has full support for D yet, the best is perhaps DDT, a plugin for Eclipse. The best way to participate in the community is a newsgroup server with a buggy web client.
I'm hopeful for the future of D, but I simply don't find it reliable enough for serious development. I don't think it simply needs more time, it's been developed for over 10 years now. What it really needs is growth in the community and a serious effort to make D mainstream.
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I'm curious if anybody else here has ever looked at or used the D programming language. Personally, it's my favorite programming language and I find it much more enjoyable to use than any other language. It was designed to be a successor of C and C++, although it's not backwards compatible and a very different language. It's a modern language in many aspects including garbage collection, exception handling, modules, dynamic arrays, associative arrays, functional programming (pure, immutable, shared, etc.), and much more. At the same time, it's a systems programming language - It compiles to machine code, supports pointers, inline assembly, and is fully linkable with C.
While the language itself is great, there are other problems. There isn't a huge number of libraries available for D, and many are out of date or not of the best quality. There are two standard libraries, the official Phobos and the unofficial Tango, which causes some fragmentation in the community. No IDE has full support for D yet, the best is perhaps DDT, a plugin for Eclipse. The best way to participate in the community is a newsgroup server with a buggy web client.
I'm hopeful for the future of D, but I simply don't find it reliable enough for serious development. I don't think it simply needs more time, it's been developed for over 10 years now. What it really needs is growth in the community and a serious effort to make D mainstream.
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