Posted by: Anonymous
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on January 17, 2008 03:46 PM
It may be 7-9 years old, but its first stable release (1.0) was just released in January of 2007.
That being said I see no obvious benefit to using D over C or C++. Just read D's FAQ: "Doesn't C++ have THIS feature in a library?" "Yes, but D includes it!"
So, why?
Oh, and the STL/strings part of the FAQ is amusing too. "Just the implementation of a string type in STL is over two thousand lines of code, using every advanced feature of templates. How much confidence can you have that this is all working correctly[...]?" Er, its the STL. I'm at least 98% confident in it. Why should we be confident in D's implementation of strings? Because D did it in less than 2k lines of code? That's not a good enough reason.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 216.26.128.170] on January 17, 2008 03:46 PMThat being said I see no obvious benefit to using D over C or C++. Just read D's FAQ: "Doesn't C++ have THIS feature in a library?" "Yes, but D includes it!"
So, why?
Oh, and the STL/strings part of the FAQ is amusing too. "Just the implementation of a string type in STL is over two thousand lines of code, using every advanced feature of templates. How much confidence can you have that this is all working correctly[...]?" Er, its the STL. I'm at least 98% confident in it. Why should we be confident in D's implementation of strings? Because D did it in less than 2k lines of code? That's not a good enough reason.
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