dmd VS v

>For me the biggest gap in programming languages is a rust like language with a garbage collector, instead of a borrow checker.

I cannot agree more that's the much needed sweet spot/Goldilock/etc. Personally I have been advocating this approach for some times. Apparently the language is already widely available and currently has stable and wide compiler support including the venerable GNU compiler suite (GDC). It also one of the fastest, if not the fastest programming in existence for both compilation and execution [1].

It has been beating Fortran in its number crunching territory, no small feat given the Fortran pedigree with many languages still depending on Fortran based infrastructure for their number crunching capabilities including Matlab, Julia, Rust, Go, C, C++, etc.

[1] D website:

https://dlang.org/

[2] Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen:

http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...

> you've written an an ARM disassembler

Here's my AArch64 disassembler work in progress:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/compiler/src/dmd/ba...

I add to it in tandem with writing the code generator. It helps flush out bugs in both by doing this. I.e. generate the instruction, the disassemble it and compare with what I thought it should be.

It's quite a bit more complicated than the corresponding x86 disassembler:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/compiler/src/dmd/ba...

Here's the pipeline spitting out the same error as on my macbook did.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/actions/runs/8023469412/job/219...

We recently migrated from YAML CI to VSH as well:

https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/ci/linux_ci.vsh

Zig is also not the only language that has interesting compile-time features. V (Vlang)[1] and D (Dlang) (among others), has them too. It's kind of weird that this is promoted so much with Zig, as if other languages don't have a lot of this.

[1]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#compile-t...

An integrated ORM with database migrations

What is quite interesting (after looking at their documentation), is that V lang[1] has all that is mentioned: `?`[2], `or`[2], sum types[4], and can return multiple values[5].

[1]: https://vlang.io/

[2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#optionres...

[3]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#sum-types

[4]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#returning...

Their site is clearly showing the language is in beta. The V documentation also states that autofree is WIP, and to use the GC instead. This isn't a corporate created language, but looks to be a true volunteer open source effort from people around the world.

Their community, in comparison to others, even has their discussions open and open threads for criticism[1]. These

[1]https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610