D (Programming Language) Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• Folks, the platform is not just for query resolution

  Are you saying she wants the D? Because that's a total brainfuck. I'd much rather believe they merely fell in Löve. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• Is a separate if statement for compile-time decisions necessary/preferred?

  There a precedents for both. Skew evaluates top-level if declarations at compile-time. It also has a neat postfix if guard for attributes (eg. @skip if Linux). D has specialised static if, static foreach, version, debug, all as statements and declarations, as well as more general quasiquoting expressions and declarations with mixin. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• C++23 “Pandemic Edition” is complete

  But isn't such a language already there? It's called the D Programming Language [1]. Sorry a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I'm getting tired of all these 'even-more-awesome' new programming language variants of C++. [1] https://dlang.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Learning C as someone who already knows Rust

  Why do you want use C again? Working with legacy code? Otherwise have a look at Dlang. C is by definition unsafe, and it is never safe to program in C. But you can follow some guidelines to minimize the chance of unsafe errors. I guess you knew this already. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago

• What features would you want in a new programming language?

  The D Programming Language with a few changes:. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• Bflat – a single ahead of time crosscompiler and runtime for C#

  There is a programming language called D (https://dlang.org/), this might have caused confusion for some people. (Technically, there used to be a language called B, too, but I don't think it has been in use since before I was born.). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• C++'s smaller cleaner language

  I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the D Programming Language yet. It's been around for a long time, and it's a crying shame that D hasn't reached anything like critical mass (yet?!). - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• where to start?

  Yeah the D programming language, https://dlang.org/ one of my favorite languages to program in. It's unfortunately not used a lot in bioinformatics, and deserves more attention in my opinion. E.g. Sambamba for working with sam/bam files is written in it (https://github.com/biod/sambamba) it's one of the most performant tools for working with NGS data because it uses async io and fibers. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• D2 is now open source – a new, modern language that turns text to diagrams

  D is a systems language though and has been around much longer. It happens to be in major version 2. https://dlang.org/. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• D2 is now open source – a new, modern language that turns text to diagrams

  Very unfortunate naming choice since D exists, is currently in major version 2 and sometimes referred to as D2, vs the legacy D1. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Lua C api userdata calling wrong metatable

  The project is written in D (similar syntax to C/C++) and using bindc-lua to talk to Lua. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Oil 0.12.7 - Garbage Collector Problems

  Lastly, my preferred language, the D programming language (https://dlang.org) uses a custom conservative GC as well, and the veterans of the community(ones who've been there longer than 7-10 years) tell me that ever since the switch to 64 bit, the collector has had little to no problems, can't be certain about long or'running processes like servers though. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago

• Working with Dolt Version Control Database

  I'm currently exploring the idea of building an application using Dolt and Dlang. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams

  Should the Dlang people decide to offer their D2, this project willl have a hard time to be found on the net. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago

• can't wait to see who is next

  Check it out, it's pretty nice. http://dlang.org. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago

• The first 6 months of a self-hosted compiler

  Since several years I work on a hobby programming language called Styx. The compiler was initially written in D. D sources were translated at the end of 2021 and finally Styx sources replaced the D ones on the 24 of January 2022, when Styx became "self-hosted". - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Huh, Carbon looks different than what I imagined

  But we already have D (https://dlang.org/). - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• You guys used C++, now get ready for the better version:

  You mean this one? https://dlang.org/. - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• [User study] Interest in a Rust-like garbage-collected programming language?

  I don't see the point of such a language. For more modern non-vm languages there already is https://nim-lang.org/ and https://dlang.org/ that target multiple platforms natively and are more or less established. Though maybe native interop with rust could be the selling point as rust has already a nice ecosystem of crates/libraries, but then, why not use rust? - Source: Reddit / 9 months ago

• What are some low level languages?

  Rust is trying to be there. D Language is there. Zig is around there. Nim is around there. V lang maybe. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?

  I am surprised D isn't mentioned here. It seems to have found the right balance between C and Python / C++ ( https://dlang.org/ ). I've been exploring some "lower level" language alternatives to C, and find that D, Ada and Pascal (FPC / Lazarus) hold more appeal to me than many of these new languages. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago