On 8 December 2013 03:33, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 12/7/2013 1:45 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > >> TL;DR the point is that writing in D gave me the opportunity to spend >> mental and >> programming time exploring these different choices and focusing on >> algorithms >> and data structures, rather than all the effort and extra LOC required to >> get a >> _particular_ idea running in C. That's where the real edge arises. >> > > I've noticed this too, but I've found it hard to explain to C programmers. > > To say it a different way, D makes it easy to refactor code to rapidly try > out different algorithms. In C, one tends to stick with the original design > because it is so much harder to refactor. > True as compared to C, but I wouldn't say this is true in general. C# and Java make it easy to refactor code rapidly. D doesn't have any such tools yet. It's my #1 wishlist item for VisualD and Mono-D, and I await such tooling with great anticipation. Maybe when the D front-end is a library, and tooling has such powerful (and reliable) semantic analysis as the compiler does it may be possible?
