Re: [OFF TOPIC] any views about the D programming language

[Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@gmail.com>]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Ittay Dror wrote:
>
>   
>> I've read the language war thread (C vs C++) and I'm wondering if 
>> someone would like to share their views about using D instead of C.
>>     
>
> I would like to ;-)
>
> This is open source.  You are free to do what you want to do.  You are 
> even welcome to do so.
>
> Just do not expect many people to be able to comment on your work, let 
> alone be enthusiastic to use it, if you use an obscure language.
>
> Just take Tcl as an example: it is not exactly obscure, has been around 
> for ages, and many commercial programs actually use it as a scripting 
> language.
>
> Yet, there are preciously few people who _ever_ contributed anything to 
> gitk or git-gui, and you hear that the main reason is the language.
>
> OTOH C is a common denominator, educates its users to exercise lots of 
> circumspection (which means that those users will invariably write less 
> buggy code, even using other languages), and the code in Git is already 
> written in it.  So why not stop bitching and just continue using it?
>
>   
Sorry, I wasn't bitching. In fact, I agree with most views about C vs 
C++ (especially Linus' post). I just wanted to see if people think, in 
general (not related to git) that D is better/worse than C. So if I were 
to start a new project, would they recommend using D. That's it.
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>   

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