November 02, 2021

First I want to thanks kinke dedicated his personal time into this great project, without LDC the D language is a pure toy.

I guess D is a risk choice back to few years ago, now there is too much choice with much bigger ecosystem. I guess the demand for LDC from company is reduced.

IMHO, LLVM Coroutines with async/await is important for Network/IO programming. Even basic support only for betterC will make a big different. But there is no manpower and resource to start this in the next few years. (C++/C#/Rust/Go/Javascript all have async/await), I know there is fake one with fiber, this is not the same thing compare to C++.

Beside async/await, the most wanted feature is trait/ownership/match from RUST. The cool kid dont deal with class/interface anymore.

I recall some time again Alex said we need support Vibed as high priority, but after years vibed/hunt web framework are not popular yet.

There is DFL/dlangui/dwt/gtkd for UI, all stoped except GTKD(linux only). You can checkout a lot cool GUI project from RUST.

There is some project for blockchain, non of them success to be able provide funds to the community.

D claim self as system programming language, I dont know what this meaning. You want java level memory safe with GC, that will never been accept by OS kernel.

January 06, 2022

On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 06:34:04 UTC, workman wrote:

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First I want to thanks kinke dedicated his personal time into this great project, without LDC the D language is a pure toy.

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Android release ndk r24-beta based on LLVM14, hope LDC can build with 14 so LTO build can link with same LLVM version.