The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

[Mike Franklin]

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread 
> today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive 
> my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so 
> much:
>
> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>
> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D 
> features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.

Nice work!  I was recently asked by my employer "why D?".  I 
think I need to show them this.

>> Aren’t you concered that Rust is faster in this benchmark?

> Not at all. The challenge was to write expressive code and if 
> performance really matters I can always opt to optimize the hot 
> path of the program and don’t need to pay a > 4x code 
> duplication cost upfront.

You've gotta address this, IMO.  What's the 
performance/expressiveness tradeoff like in D?

Mike