From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] any views about the D programming language Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:15:00 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <48635047.30707@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ittay Dror X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 26 13:18:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBpUi-000601-0Q for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:18:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754624AbYFZLRH (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:17:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753923AbYFZLRF (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:17:05 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39774 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752162AbYFZLRE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:17:04 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2008 11:17:00 -0000 Received: from almond.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO almond.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.241] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 26 Jun 2008 13:17:00 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19sMTVsezNsyRH6cBGyVEiFQk84sq9Oy0FZGJW2Df Q1FYzHXmgYDPKC X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <48635047.30707@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? Ciao, Dscho