Beta 2.079.0

[Patrick Schluter]

On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 09:48:33 UTC, Norm wrote:
> [snip]
> On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 04:06:23 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
> wrote:
>>
>> Third, making D more and more like a quick scripting/hacking 
>> language (by removing or hiding so called 'noise', is not a 
>> good idea in my opinion. That too seemed to be a motivator for 
>> at some aspect of the change.
>
> This import feature and surrounding discussion I couldn't care 
> less about but I have to chime in and disagree with this 
> particular point. Ability to quickly script in D was a big 
> selling point for D at my workplace, I'd say *the* feature that 
> got uninterested developers listening and trying the language. 
> Being able to replace their Python scripts with a fast native 
> language that is also used for application and drivers 
> development was a winning formula.
>
Absolutely. D scripting is the trojan horse that enables 
introduction of it in hostile environment. Runnable compiled 
source code is nice.