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

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jun 26, 2008, 11:15 UTC
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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

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