On Monday, 27 November 2023 at 13:08:18 UTC, Martyn wrote:

I accidentally hit send.

What else would be in the same category as C# ??

I think that depends on what you are trying to do.
Depending on what it is you are doing, alternatives could be Go, Dart, Kotlin, or to some degree.... node. (please dont throw stones at me!)

Of course - we also have D.

On Monday, 27 November 2023 at 13:31:31 UTC, Martyn wrote:

It's a quite asinine myth that you need to learn a new language for every program you write. Coincidentally today languages tend to compete everywhere from native to web and kernels.

On Monday, 27 November 2023 at 10:22:52 UTC, Kagamin wrote:

fun <T> Sequence<T>.chunked(size: Int): Sequence<List<T>>

Well...

val array = arrayOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
val slice = array.sliceArray(0..3)

But check this sugar
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/lambdas.html#it-implicit-name-of-a-single-parameter

val sequenceResult = sequenceOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
    .filter { it % 2 == 0 }
    .map { it * 2 }
    .toList()

public fun ByteArray.sliceArray(indices: IntRange): ByteArray {
    if (indices.isEmpty()) return ByteArray(0)
    return copyOfRange(indices.start, indices.endInclusive + 1)
}

Is this accurate? copyOfRange?

On Monday, 27 November 2023 at 16:11:34 UTC, Kagamin wrote:

It was not my intention for my comment to come across this way. Some languages are generally suited for certain things but not others. I mean, I know there has been a comment from someone on here saying that D is great for server-side/background programs but **** for client/frontend.

Of course, there are languages that are doing well for most types of areas- and C# is an example. As for the alternatives I suggested, they are just that.. but if you already know or good as C#, do you really need to change? Probably not.

On Monday, 27 November 2023 at 13:08:18 UTC, Martyn wrote:

Personally I think D could be really great if just a little more attention would be given to the ecosystem and tooling.

On Tuesday, 28 November 2023 at 15:17:50 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

why don't you start giving it the attention then?

On Tuesday, 28 November 2023 at 09:17:57 UTC, Martyn wrote:

I use D for both regularly and don't see any obvious preference.

My recent project is gitlab automerger that automates its asinine branch-commit-request-merge workflow so that I don't see its humongous web 2.0 interface.

On Sunday, 26 November 2023 at 17:52:24 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

If you want alternatives to D, just use any high-level with C interop. Still it's not nice as D, I hope DLang gets more attention it needs in future.