Blame the news media. They sane washed Trump.

Not if you opt in it. You can even put @safe: in the beginning of your D source code, then you’ll have a memory safe D (you have to opt out by using @trusted then @system).

I personally prefer the memory safety tools offered by D over Rust. D also doesn’t come with const by default, and you can even opt out of the RAII stuff a certain graphics driver developer boasted about in the Linux developer mailings (RAII can be a bad for optimization).

/// Throws: MoneyNotFoundExcetion if person does not have enough money

*Stockholm Syndrome / Stockholm Syndrome / Stockholm Syndrome + Autism

And even if we could, It would probably mean no more muscle car collection for me.

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How do I run Paint Shop Pro 9 on Linux?

https://code.dlang.org/packages/fluid

Want to make a code editor with me? You can give it a name then.

No, I’ll likely code it in D, with with blackjack and hookers!

No thanks, I’m rolling my own text editor with a GUI…

It’s time to return to the roots, the times when you used goto instead of function calls! Fortran and COBOL all the way! /s

Once you look beyond the “git gud” and “we must gatekeep programming from the normies” aspects of coding, you might want a language that is either way more productive than C (D), a language that offers memory safety and functional programming paradigms (Rust), or even a language that has relatively good portability even at the cost of performance (Javascript).

If you’re only grumpy about Electron apps, then be mad at the corporations that:

• forced colleges and universities to teach Javascript and nothing else to students, so now we have programmers afraid of type declarations,
• jumped on the “Big Data” and “software as a service” train, so every app needed to be a “website”, because “it’s so convenient, pops no longer need to install wordprocessor dot exe, just type wordprocessor dot com into a browser”.

I want normal applications, that run on my computer I have at home!

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If you thought misspelling a variable was bad, then get ready for misreading documentation of OS API, then not realize why your implementation doesn’t work for a quite a long time.

This is highly inaccurate:

D: Esperanto. Highly derivative of C (Latin), designed by people previously writing compilers. It’s not being taken seriously as such.

Russian is nowadays being speaken by right-wing authoritarians instead, and any programmer that is auth-right is either coding in C/C++, or a Javascript/Python dev pretending to be a C/C++ dev to “gatekeep” nulangs (sic).

Leaked Windows code made Wine and ReactOS devs anxious, since MS could sue over it. On the other hand, I’ve looked up the keycodes from the Linux kernel for X11 (it’s literally just PS/2 with the unused codes being used in place of the E0 keys), and they haven’t yet came after us.

D seems to getting traction yet again, and some stuff might get better (D3, new GC, new standard library, etc).

While the borrow checker has its downsides, so its legitimate uses. A few people in the D community were thinking about implementing it as a library.

Some of these people are Javascript web developers idealizing system development and the C language.