The Next Big Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of

D? It's been around for a fairly long time, and it doesn't really have much momentum. I'm not sure why it's "the next big programming language".

The phrase &quot;C++ is an extremely fast language -- meaning software built with it runs at high speed&quot; needs to be changed to &quot;It&#x27;s possible to build high speed software with C++&quot;.<p>I take any performance claims made by a particular language with a pretty big grain of salt (particularly those made vs Java&#x2F;JVM) unless they&#x27;re accompanied by some reasonably sophisticated benchmarks and source that actually show a performance difference -- not just one that low-level language enthusiasts presume exists.

Has anyone at wired these days actually seen a computer?<p>If they have they should really show it to their journalists.

spoiler: the language is D. <a href="http://dlang.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dlang.org&#x2F;</a>

I think most programmers I know have heard of D. When I took at look at it years ago, I concluded that the main problem was that it tried to please everyone. There&#x27;s simply &#x27;too many&#x27; features without a core theme to drive programming.

Is this because Facebook uses it? D has been round for longer than they seem to be making out.

Whenever I see the story is from Wired I always check the comments to see if it&#x27;s worth my time more often than not it isn&#x27;t.

Previous discussion with 14 comments from 6 hours ago <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998144" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7998144</a>

not sure if D is a stranger in these parts.

Andrei is looking pretty fit these days. Being a research scientist at Facebook is good for your health it looks like.

Sorry Wired, but you don&#x27;t build up hype for a language like that.

The problem with low level languages is they don&#x27;t live in isolation.<p>As someone who worked on a large project in Ada, you&#x27;ll need to at some point use the OS and its libraries which for Unix is in C. Want to network or get a OS semaphore? C. Many languages support this call to the C library functionality, but it always seems to force a lot of things back into the C way of doing things.<p>Maybe with a runtime (Java!, or ada tasks) this is abstracted away, but its still there..

Man, Facebook has a lot of hookups with Wired. You always see articles on Wired about Facebook projects and tech.<p>relevant: Co-creator of D works at Facebook.

They got it wrong, the next big language is obviously Limbo![0]<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_programming_language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Limbo_programming_language</a>

Programming languages are so previous century. The future is environments that move away from the machine and deep inside the user&#x27;s mind. Automation taken into extremes.

Last time I looked at D (maybe 6-8 years ago), I saw a C++ reskinned, and two standard libraries, incompatible.<p>Looking at it today, it looks much more modern, but I&#x27;m simply not interested. I&#x27;ve drunk the Rust koolaid. :-)<p>(But it would be interesting to do a compare and contrast with a decently sized project for both D and Rust).

I read the title of this article and thought &quot;HN is now a parody of HN.&quot;

But can it compile to Javascript?

cade metz alert

Let me put on my tinfoil hat for a second.<p>Two companies that love user data are making &quot;languages&quot; for us to write our applications with (Facebook with Hack and React, Google with Dart and Go)<p>The NSA worked backdoors into RSA encryption. Could the Facebook&#x2F;Google compilers provide a similar backdoor for them to syphon data?<p>&#x2F;tinfoilhat