Interview at Lang.NEXT

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 6/4/14, 1:27 PM, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:19:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> When that person made the statement about expressing his mental model in
> a simpler way that is still somewhat fast, and then optimizing/adding
> annotations/etc. after he gets it working, I kept expecting you to
> mention RDMD and D's ability to be used for scripting, and
> purity/nothrow/@safe/@nogc inference. This is an advantage D has over
> Rust and C++. With Rust especially, there is no way to avoid dealing
> with its pointer semantics, as they permeate the language. With D, you
> can write in a C or even Python-like way (while not having to worry
> about ownership, memory, etc. as the GC handles it for you), but you can
> then optimize and add annotations to your code to get a lot more
> performance and safety once your initial implementation is working.

You still have to worry about types, though.