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by gregdaniels421
1 day ago
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> point at betterC which remains half-assed for about a decade now (search my blog archives, here's one with them talking about "A betterC standard library" from December 2016 - https://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/2016-dec-18.html - and none of that has materialized ). Oof, yeah that is definitely a pain point. Not to get too personal, but why would you continue to invest so much time in the language if upstream isn't accommodating? Has WalterBright had any comments on this? He usually is so vocal, any hope of a remerge of the OpenD changes in to CanonD? Anyway, I appreciate you trying to advance Dlang, I fight for it all the time at work, and usually get to do stuff in it(I am old and have privileges). |
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Sunk cost fallacy lol. I got on the D train back in 2006 and of those half million lines of code I'm responsible for maintaining, about a quarter million are my own. A lot of work to make that... I have my own, from scratch: gui toolkit, terminal emulator, games, spreadsheet, web apps, shell, scriptable calculator, and more. Mostly mine but using libraries or ported third party code sometimes: music players, web browsers (one is from scratch but not terribly functional, one using chromimum libraries I'm typing this comment on right now), window manager, taskbar, the list goes on.
My whole daily work environment is made out of D code. And yeah, sure, there's alternatives, but I like mine. And a lot of it is making the apis cute. For example, I wanted to add a menu option to reset something in one of my programs last week. So I opened the code and wrote
``` @menu("&Query") @accelerator("Ctrl+R") void Load_Default() { query.content = readTextFile("default.txt"); variables.content = "{}"; } ```
It recompiled in about a second and a half and just like that, I can press ctrl+r to reload the defaults, or click Query -> Load Default in the menu (or alt+q and keyboard to it etc). My gui library takes care of a lot of things so I just write some functionality as-needed and use it a few seconds later.
Can I do that with Microsoft Excel? excel is a useful program too, but it takes longer to just load than it takes me to change the code, recompile, and relaunch my spreadsheet program lol.
Could I port all this stuff to other languages? Maybe. But it is less work to just maintain a stable fork of the compiler lol. (at the risk of getting flagged for being a troll again, I feel the same way about wayland... easier to maintain xorg, a program i haven't even restarted for years, than to rewrite the whole ecosystem.)
And that's the key point too, I do generally think the D language is mostly good enough as-is, so if I never committed another line of code to it, I'd still find it good enough. But it is nice if I do hit a language/compiler problem I can just fix it too.