On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 00:29:15 UTC, Joshua Niehus wrote:
You dont need to compete, you can take established "good and fast" FORTRAN/C code and use it within your own D program.
I forgot to add:If you doing new stuff then D can be as fast as anything eles, provided the algorithm is sound, optimizers turned on, sprinkle in a lil asembly, etc...