The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 570
penguinblotter writes in a journal article: "Soon, Walter Bright is scheduled to release version 1.0 of the D Programming Language. D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. Special attention is given to the needs of quality assurance, documentation, management, portability and reliability. D has appeared on Slashdot a few times before, and Walter has continued to add more and more features. Most Slashdot community comments in these articles have been offered on feature X or spec Y without reading through the extensive D newsgroup archives. It has been here over the past seven years where extremely gifted and experienced programmers hashed out discussions and arrived at excellent implementations of all the ideas discussed." Read on for the rest of penguinblotter's writeup.
For those with a C/C++ background, D offers:
- native code speed
- extremely fast compilation times
- garbage collection (although you can manage your own memory if you want)
- OOP - by reference only, easy initialization, always virtual
- cleaner template metaprogramming syntax, more powerful templates, as well
- built-in dynamic and associative arrays, array slicing
- versioning (no preprocessor madness)
- link-compatibility with C
- nested functions
- class delegates / function pointers
- module system
- similar syntax
- No virtual machine or interpreter
- built-in unit testing and design-by-contract
From D's creator:
For me, it's hard to pinpoint any particular feature or two. It's the combination of features that makes the cake, not the sugar, flour or baking powder. So,
- My programs come together faster and have fewer bugs.
- Once written, the programs are easier to modify.
- I can do (1) and (2) without giving up performance.
This won't work... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This won't work... (Score:4, Funny)
It looks like a step down (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Another 'Toy' Programming Language (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Weird writeup: (Score:1, Funny)
LMAO! And, as expected, we see your true colors. C++ FANBOY OFFENDED. FILM AT 11:00!
Is anyone ... (Score:2, Funny)
IDE D's Language Features (Score:2, Funny)
EVERY Language Sucks (Score:3, Funny)
Can't someone write up some stuff that understands proper english? Geez.
Re:EVERY Language Sucks (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Because the ones we have suck? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It looks like a step down (Score:3, Funny)
After working so hard to get from C to C++, I don't see why I would settle for D
I'd gladly have my girlfriend to go from C to D, but I admit there's nothing I would love more than DD.
Edit : yeah I know, quit telling me that I must be a liar, I don't have a girlfriend, WHO CARES?!?
Edit #2 : What? You can't edit your comments on Slashdot? So how am I doing that, jerk?
Re:This won't work... (Score:5, Funny)
I hope someone creates an "O" language. That way, interface bindings for it could be called "O-interfaces", or "O-faces" for short. So when you create a nifty library for the language, publishing it could be known as "showing the world your O-face".
The H programming language (Score:2, Funny)
Especially among teenagers and otaku. (And geeks who think that otaku is equivalent to geek.)
Re:GC, No Vm or performance hit (Score:3, Funny)
Let me help you with this :
Dad?
Meh, karma to burn...