| DIPs | dmd | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 148 | |
| 156 | 2,893 | |
| 0.6% | 0.4% | |
| 5.8 | 9.9 | |
| 11 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| D | D | |
| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | Boost Software License 1.0 |
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DIPs
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The OpenD Programming Language (fork of D)
The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd
But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md
However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.
Given D already has so many feature, I find that to be a good thing , to be honest, by not everyone agrees, of course.
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Mojo 🔥: A programming language for all AI developers
Borrow checking does not require lifetime annotations. D is a precedent there. Look at DIP25 and DIP1000.
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Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
There's no "nogc" containers in phobos, or allocators, or an idiomatic way to do safe manual memory management. It expects you to do it the C way. It's also impossible to implement some things because of how D does moving. There's a DIP in the works to change how moving works, but it's overly complicated and bound to introduce even more bugs. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1040.md
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Is there any other programming language aside from C++ that has move semantics feature available?
D Is drafting up move semantics to interface better with C++. Although they're going a bit the Rust way in the current proposal. D has tried a couple of other strategies, but unique pointers and C++ interoperability kind of forced the hand of Walter Bright.
- Is D backwards compatible?
- PSC #025 2021-06-18 minutes - massive update on RFC processes and RFCs in flight
- Three situations regarding memory
- DIP1040: Copying, Moving, and Forwarding
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Things that you miss from your previous language?
String interpolation is coming: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1036.md
- System variables: Protecting data for memory safety in unsafe code
dmd
- Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition
- A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
- D2 Playground
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DMD Compiler as a Library: A Call to Arms
Here's the pipeline spitting out the same error as on my macbook did.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/actions/runs/8023469412/job/219...
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My favourite Git commit (2019)
Not completely on topic (if you read TFA) but my favorite Git commit is by compiler badass and HN frequenter, where he checks in an entire C compiler to the D language repo:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102584
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The C Bounded Model Checker: Criminally Underused
A new generated code alone is 4000 lines long [1]. The actual code added is just 2000 lines, and some are used to pay debts, I mean, to make a proper code generator (which can be alternatively written in a simpler scripting langauge). In any case it is never comparable to the entier C parser proper.
[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15307/files#diff-3677bcc89...
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OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
D is completely opensource already (https://github.com/dlang/dmd). The "open" of OpenD is just ADR saying that OpenD will be more open to new language features than D has historically been.
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The OpenD Programming Language (fork of D)
The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd
But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md
However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.
Given D already has so many feature, I find that to be a good thing , to be honest, by not everyone agrees, of course.
- Odin Programming Language
- D Programming Language
What are some alternatives?
crubit
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
compact_str - A memory efficient string type that can store up to 24* bytes on the stack
ldc - The LLVM-based D Compiler.
peps - Python Enhancement Proposals
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
intellij-dlanguage - Intellij Plugin for the D Programming Language
dextool - Suite of C/C++ tooling built on LLVM/Clang
proposals - ✍️ Tracking the status of Babel's implementation of TC39 proposals (may be out of date)
Odin - Odin Programming Language
carbon-lang - Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)
llvm-project - The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.