cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49193875

DConf2026 mostly has proAI talks, with the biggest standout being Adam Wilson’s talk about integrating LLMs into developing the next version of the standard library.

This lead to a lot of debate within the community, with even some pro-genAI people calling it out, and there’s even an open letter calling for rethinking the use of genAI, and some increased interest in the OpenD fork. It is also found out that people did try to volunteer for the new standard library (including me), but were rejected with the excuse of “we already have things in the works”.

I’m also interested into some D alternatives that’s not Rust (🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 - no I’m not a Lunduke fan, but a gamedev, also no “const by default” languages!), has metaprogramming capabilities, and no (mandatory) header files (🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮), in case I decide to leave. I have a game engine that could be ported, its resource management needs to decoupled for D’s garbage collection though.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    It has for strings and tuples, which are immutable.

    If you want your mind blown a lot more

    Ehm, that’s not mind blowing at all? I think there is some misundestanding. I am not talking about Strings and Tuples alone, but a global rule for all types as being immutable by default. And it would be nice to have a way to tell ANY variable to be immutable.

    Scheme does not demands immutability like Clojure, but it prefers it

    I’m not sure what “prefers” means in this context; do you mean it “defaults” to? Rust in example doesn’t “demand” immutability, it just defaults to it. I had looked into Clojure for a while, but I don’t like Lisp.

    Just for good measure, I think Odin and Scala are also interesting languages. Whats interesting about Scala is, it can output Java Bytecode, JavaScript and native compiled code. Odin on the other hand seems to be a mixture of C and Python, but I didn’t look any further.