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Comment by mrec

7 years ago

> Andrei Alexandrescu (creator of D)

Andrei didn't create D; he's been influential in it, especially w.r.t. D's metaprogramming story, but the language was created and is primarily maintained by Walter Bright.

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mhh__  7 years ago

IIRC He is a - listed - co-creator of D2 (There are two versions of D, the first one being entirely Walter?)

bausshf  7 years ago

D1 was created by Walter Bright, but D2 was primarily created by both Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu.

  • mrec  7 years ago

    Is D2 so different as to be considered a separate language? (I haven't really followed it for years now.)

    • bausshf  7 years ago

      Yes it's very different.

      D2 introduced a lot of new keywords, new semantics, not two "standard" libraries like with D1 where there were Tango. Tango is pretty much completely obsolete in D2. Most D1 code might work to an extend with the D2 compiler, BUT almost no D2 code will be able to run using a D1 compiler and it'll even be difficult to translate it directly.

      D2 is basically when Andrei joined the development of D back in 2007.