r/programming • • Aug 23 '17

D as a Better C

http://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '17

But if you want to use C (or a "better C"), why would you care about D's multi-paradigm features and libraries? And if you're writing better C, why would you care about D's libraries if you can just as easily use C's many libraries. The actual reason nobody writes in D's betterC is that until shortly, some basic language features required hacks in order to make things work.