From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 29 08:50:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAFD106566C for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:50:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dfr@rabson.org) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (router.rabson.org [80.177.232.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD948FC08 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:909f:1:225:ff:feed:9426] (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:909f:1:225:ff:feed:9426]) by itchy.rabson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2B55EAD; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:49:56 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <53AE4E9C-733C-41F6-9F0D-9DBD80D01089@rabson.org> From: Doug Rabson To: Michael David Crawford In-Reply-To: <4A98DD97.1050505@prgmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:49:56 +0100 References: <8819E53E-9F96-43E2-B7F5-F5393F5AE126@rabson.org> <1F28170B-BA01-4988-8BB8-9875B9D00DD5@rabson.org> <4A9859CA.9080606@elischer.org> <4A98DD97.1050505@prgmr.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: New BSD licensed debugger X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:50:27 -0000 On 29 Aug 2009, at 08:49, Michael David Crawford wrote: > I am curious - not wanting to start a pissing contest or anything - > but why do you prefer D over other languages? > > Is D the wave of the future? > > Back when Microsoft shipped the very first version of Visual Studio > that supported C++, advertisements started appearing everywhere, > seeking coders with "5 years of Visual C++ experience". This > despite Visual C++ having been on the market for only a few months. > > So next year, are all the recruiters going to be looking for coders > with five years of Visual D experience? :-D It seems unlikely :). I got interested in D a couple of years ago and it seemed to be a nice attempt at a modern C-like language that didn't have all the baggage of C++. This project at least partly is my 'learn the language' project. D language features (garbage collection, dynamic arrays, associative arrays) have certainly made writing this a much more pleasant experience than trying to do the same thing in C++.