On Saturday, 23 August 2014 at 18:29:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2ed9ah/some_notes_on_d_for_the_win/
http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/dlang-part2/
I posted in the thread (under the same name as here) and
regularly discuss D in /r/programming. I really enjoy trying out
new languages and I think D is excellent - I was up and running
in it in just a few days. TDP+Ali's book are great references.
One of the things I like the best about D is the community, it's
very lively. I have a few complaints about the language because
nothing is perfect(e.g, attribute puke), but overall I find the
language extremely usable.
Rust was mentioned a few times in the thread -- I've been using
Rust for a while too(which I see constantly mentioned anytime D
is) and I'm always tripping over my own feet trying to understand
the memory/type system, lifetimes, etc. I'm not even going to
claim that I'm a good programmer, but I'm not sure how I feel
about Rust being widely adopted outside of extremely memory-safe
applications(e.g, Mozilla's Servo.) The obvious ML/functional
inspiration is also going to be a stumbling block for
C/C++/Java/etc programmers IMO, I've done some hobby work with
Haskell so I wasn't exactly fish out of water but I could
understand why some may be.
Keep up the great work on D.
