On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 10:35:03 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Interesting. Two points suggest that you should use D only for
serious programming:
"cases where you want to write quick one-off scripts that need to
use a bunch of different libraries not yet available in D and
where it doesn't make sense to wrap or port them" - quick and
dirty
"where you have many inexperienced programmers and they need to
be productive very quickly." - quick and awkward
[what does this tell us about financial programming ...]
This reason is true of any other language:
"where you have a lot of code in another language (especially non
C, non Python) and defining an interface is not so easy;"
In fact, the reasons you give (apart from the point about GUI)
are true of C++, C#, Java etc. too. It's a bit generic. I was
thinking of D specific reasons like lack of support for mobile
platforms (not 100% yet). So your average stock broker couldn't
calculate some bogus numbers on his iPad while having a latte and
a Pelegrino in a posh cafe off Wallstreet. He he he.
GC and lack of mobile are real reasons not to use D.
