A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Mon Jan 7 03:31:45 PST 2013


Walter Bright:
> http://fgda.pl/post/8/a-look-at-the-d-programming-language


 From the article:

> if you only count the natively-compiled ones that could be used
> instead of C++ and have a similarly looking code. D is the best
> fit in this category, if not the only fit.1

There is also Rust.


> if (!tmp) throw new Exception("Memory allocation failed");

The error for memory overflow isn't immediate to find.


> The garbage collector in D isn't very fast and stops the
> world (halts other threads).

A Rust GC doesn't need to stop more than one thread.

Bye,
bearophile


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