• Dr Machine Code (8/37) Jan 01 2022 What did you mean by becaming proprietary? the community version

Dr Machine Code <jckj33 gmail.com> writes:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/gygybueklghczbxjreld forum.dlang.org

On Friday, 8 October 2021 at 12:46:33 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
 On Friday, 8 October 2021 at 11:00:59 UTC, Tejas wrote:
 Chances of Rust taking over that segment?

 Also C++ is still used (and must be used??) for applications 
 like photo and video editing s/w.


 pf C++?

 Rust is already partially eating up the marketshare of C/C++. 
 There is a big drive to enable Rust for Linux drivers for 
 example. For low level programming, I find Rust annoying but 
 some people might endure it.

 When it comes to applications, it is a mystery to me that C++ 
 still is so popular. Probably mostly because there is an 
 existing code base that companies don't want to rewrite. This 
 is a great opportunity for D as the FFI is one of the best out 
 there which enables a gradual migration.


 I'm not sure what the status is and if you get the same 
 performance. For cross platform GUI application, there isn't an 
 obvious choice. C++ with Qt is still a strong contender but it 
 is becoming proprietary.

What did you mean by becaming proprietary? the community version 
is falling behind alot than the paid one?

Let's not forget web applications,
 when performance is not required web applications do a good 
 enough job at the same time becoming totally platform 
 independent.


 runs just as well as any C++ program.


they are doing alot of pinvokes to native fucntions? that's how 
VS code runs smooth