Readit NewsAnyway, I used the DM C++ compiler originally because it was the only one I could download to the high school computers without filling out a form, and pimply-face youth me saw "DESIGN BY CONTRACT" at the top of the website and got kinda excited thinking it was a way to make some easy money coding online.
Imagine my disappointment when I saw it was just in/out/invariant/assert features. (I'm pretty sure D had just come out when I saw that, but I saw `import` instead of `#include` and dismissed it as a weenie language. Came back a couple years later and cursed my younger self for being a fool! lol)
I even wanted to run a sound on the "positive case" ie a loop that is processing a few hundred items, could easily benefict from a subtle sound so you could feel when some request got hold...
Like virtually all hardware does ie your vacuum cleaner has something stuck and is not operating at 100% etc.
(I'm planning doing a "toy" terminal using a gamedev environment just to explore this a bit)
edit: If you use Raycast you can just throw confetti from the command line too for extra dopamine:
open raycast://confettiWell anyway, I mostly agree with this post. Another similar thing I hate to see is things like "Really? In 2024?" and im just like that's the laziest critique of something ever.
Nevertheless, it looks like a pretty cool tool!
Then came the D2 re-write which broke backwards compatibility and took another few years.
In the meantime everyone moved on
No such thing happened. D has always been built on the same codebase, and the labels "D1" and "D2" are just arbitrary points on a mostly linear evolution (in fact, the tags D 1.0 and D 2.0 came only 6 months apart; 1.0 was just meant to be a long term support branch, not a different language. It was the addition of `const` that broke most code around release 2.6 but if you update those, old and new compilers generally work.
I'd say where D failed was its insistence on chasing every half-baked trend that someone comments on Hacker News. Seriously, look at this very thread, Walter is replying to thing after thing saying "D has this too!!" nevermind if it actually is valuable irl or not.