On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 16:31:28 UTC, JN wrote:
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 10:38:49 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
Something I really appreciate a lot with D is how close it is
to JavaScript.
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I don't think that's a good selling point. The obvious reply is
"but why should I use an unknown language like D if I could
just use node.js and share the client and server code?".
Speed, you're limited by the browser but not on the server. I'm
running this regex benchmark right now and the D version beats
the top C and Rust ones from this list on linux/x64 with a single
core:
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/regexredux.html
I need to parallelize the D version and compare with multi-core
also. Of course, once webasm takes off, everyone will simply
compile their server code to webasm and ditch javascript
altogether:
https://blog.figma.com/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x-76f3f2395164
But then, we can sell those javascript programmers on moving to
D. ;)
