I'm sorry I can't help but comment how awesome DLang is. Please promote this more on here. Wish I had the time to write open source projects around it, as I simply love this language. I'll reiterate it would benefit from a nice set of webassembly packages - the syntax is easy to pick up for anyone familiar with web languages, and it feels natural that DLang could dominate wasm libraries.
From the article, it's interesting to note that D utilizes Thread-Local Storage (TLS) by default and that OpenBSD does not has support for the feature [1].
Note that you can use D without TLS on scenarii that don't support it. TLS is a need of (parts of) the D runtime, which you can avoid if need be. This is painful, yet doable.
Is D's value proposition that it's a better successor of C than C++? Because that's what it seems like to me from a quick read of the website.
But it also seems like D is not suitable for a lot of things that C++ is, like embedded applications. Also, it doesn't seem like support for Android and iOS is very good at the moment. So for portability, C++ is still the only choice.
D does seem really nice though, like a modern high level language, but with support for custom memory management, low-level system APIs, and even ABI compatibility with C. But I'm hesitant to build anything with it because as much as I loathe working in C++, it's still the safest bet by far.
Also, Swift seems like it has similar goals, but with Apple's full support behind it.
> But it also seems like D is not suitable for a lot of things that C++ is, like embedded applications
Not sure where you got this idea, as being usable for embedded programming is explicitly one of D's design goals. You can use D anywhere you use C++, and it is a much nicer language to boot!
> Also, it doesn't seem like support for Android and iOS is very good at the moment
I can't comment on this. There is support for both platforms IIRC, but I haven't tried writing apps for either in D.
> But I'm hesitant to build anything with it because as much as I loathe working in C++, it's still the safest bet by far.
I'm not sure what you mean by "safe" here. D has been around for over 20 years and isn't going anywhere anytime soon. The main difference from C++ is that the community is smaller, and it's a bit harder to get a job writing D (but not that much harder nowadays; there are a lot of people working for companies like Symmetry Investments, writing D every day).
> Also, Swift seems like it has similar goals, but with Apple's full support behind it.
Swift also seems like a very nice language, and I would probably be using it if D didn't exist. That being said, its metaprogramming capabilities are woefully underpowered to D's. From my experience, only the Lisp family of languages beat D in this area.
what im really hoping for is extended attributes support again. i use them for a file tagging system i made (https://gitlab.com/finnoleary/koios) and dont really want to be on a computer without that
