On Sunday, 2 August 2015 at 16:25:18 UTC, Yura wrote:
I just wander how D would be suitable for my purpose? Please,
correct me if I am wrong, but in D the need of pointers is
minimal, there is a garbage collector, the arrays can be
dynamically allocated, the arrays can be sliced, ~=, etc which
makes it similar to python at some extent. I tried to write a
little code in D and it was very much intuitive and similar to
what I did both in Python and C.
If you can do it in C, you can do it in D. Full stop.
You get a lot of nice additional features with D, and unlike C++,
there are not a thousand ways to shoot yourself in the foot with
a hundred line program. You can easily call C libraries from D so
you lose nothing wrt to legacy C code. You can use pyd to
interoperate with Python, so you can move as quickly or as slowly
as desired from Python to D. You can even call D from C, so if D
doesn't work out, you don't lose the code you've written.
I primarily use R but have been moving a lot of code into D for
speed and the nice language features for two years now, and I
have no regrets. When I started with D, I read lots of comments
about the compiler being buggy, but have yet to encounter a
compiler bug. Thankfully that myth seems to be dying.
