On 02/18/2016 09:22 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
Lots of programmers out there use and love languages that are far slower than any code DMD produces (think JavaScript, Python, Ruby). So I see no point here.
While that's true, my impression is most of the users and fans of those languages use them *because* they're fundamentally dynamic (unlike D), deliberately lacks every feature they possibly CAN lack (unlike D), and lack all the compile-time safety that D promotes as features.
So regarding those langauges' reduced speed, while many of their users don't care one bit ("why aren't you a consumer whore like me? go buy a new machine, you dinosaur!"), there seems to also be a large population that merely *tolerates* the lower speed for the sake of the dynamicness and the lack-of-compile-time-anything that they love. The first group will likely never be tempted by D regardless, but for the second group, a language that's fast like C/C++ but not nearly as unproductive IS appealing, and even seems to be something they're often on the lookout for.
