Hi, I'm not a real d programmar after all, but after reading this online manual of D language and also some of the other web materials on performance comparisons of d/c++/java, I really think d has a great potential in becoming a substitute of c++. But the problem is it can't beat java if its language design is still kept in a small circle, and the size of its runtime library is still limited by the ideas of being "just sufficient for programmers to work on".

Anyhow my suggestion is D language should be made more popular by following either the "GNU" way and/or Sun's standardization way.

there's just one way to make it more popular: i do my part, do you? :D

i'm telling everywhere that i use it, and i got quite some people yet interested in it, and several moving over to it. i think there are about 20-30 people more that know it thanks to me, and about 3-4 wich will use it regularly now thanks to me, and at least one who does never touch c++ again, + me, hehe:D

D grows fast by itself. i haven't seen much about it online one,two months ago. and now it got discussed regularly in the big gamedev forums (flipcode,gamedev, and others)..

it has big chances.. i think it can make it..
In article <bm3nuq$2vrl$1@digitaldaemon.com>, deng kun says...
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>Hi, I'm not a real d programmar after all, but after reading this online manual of D language and also some of the other web materials on performance comparisons of d/c++/java, I really think d has a great potential in becoming a substitute of c++. But the problem is it can't beat java if its language design is still kept in a small circle, and the size of its runtime library is still limited by the ideas of being "just sufficient for programmers to work on".
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>Anyhow my suggestion is D language should be made more popular by following either the "GNU" way and/or Sun's standardization way.
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In my opinon, the way out of the library problem is to make D a CLR language so that it can readily use all of the .NET classes.  One could then quickly be much more productive in D.  But Walter wants D to be a "systems language", which doesn't fit in as well with .NET.

   Dan

"deng kun" <deng_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:bm3nuq$2vrl$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hi, I'm not a real d programmar after all, but after reading this online
manual
> of D language and also some of the other web materials on performance comparisons of d/c++/java, I really think d has a great potential in
becoming a
> substitute of c++. But the problem is it can't beat java if its language
design
> is still kept in a small circle, and the size of its runtime library is
still
> limited by the ideas of being "just sufficient for programmers to work
on".
>
> Anyhow my suggestion is D language should be made more popular by
following
> either the "GNU" way and/or Sun's standardization way.
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>