Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

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On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 19:16:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 18:23:08 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 10/22/2015 09:08 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> This has been a homerun. Congratulations for this work and 
>> also for publicizing it! (Consider it might have remained just 
>> one forum discussion read by all of 80 persons...) -- Andrei
>
> We really do need to stop hiding our light under a bushel.  
> Thinking in marketing terms doesn't always come easy to 
> technically minded people, and I understand why, but ultimately 
> the community benefits a great deal from people becoming aware 
> of the very real benefits D has to offer (alas people won't 
> just get it, even if you think they should), and there are 
> personal career benefits too from helping communicate how you 
> have applied D to do useful work.  It's hard to find great 
> programmers and showing what you can do will pay off over time.

D has no well defined area to be used in. Everyone knows D, when 
written in a very specific C-mimicking way, is performant. But 
nobody is using C# or Scala or Python for performance.