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Comment by ckcheng

6 days ago

> In the end it came down to Swift vs Rust, and Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop

Why not D?

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throwaway27448  6 days ago

Why not rust? It's popilar, in wide adoption, with wide support, without the baggage of C++. What'e the downside?

  • ckcheng  6 days ago

    Well they already chose Swift over Rust because they said:

    > Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop

    So I guess from their point of view that’s why not rust.

    I don’t have a horse in the race.

    I was genuinely interested in why they didn’t even consider D given they already ruled out rust for those particular reasons, for which it seems D would fulfill nicely.

  • user205738  6 days ago

    It is not backward compatible, the library system is immature, and there is no variety of different compilers for the language.