From: Ittay Dror Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:43:13 GMT Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] any views about the D programming language Message-ID: <486380D1.4090904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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 > > -- -- Ittay Dror