On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:44:37 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote: > bearophile: > "I am sometimes able to write working D code almost as quickly as Python > code" > > Yes, indeed - that's my experience too. I wonder what we could do to > make this most of the time, if not almost always, and for less > experienced programmers than you.
Google's internal recommendations used to be: use Python when your project is going to stay small, use Java or C++ otherwise. Their recent recommendations are the same, but with the note that projects do not stay small. I feel like D catches up in productivity (purely from a language and tools standpoint, not from a library standpoint) within the first hundred lines of code. The only things I use python for these days are its REPL (which is a pretty nice calculator) and pretty-printing JSON.