[Semi-OT] I don't want to leave this language!

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 15:17:21 UTC, Picaud Vincent 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 11:48:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
> I understand and I do agree with these points, honestly. These 
> points are also the reason why I will maybe try to use D for my 
> own codes (D is really much better than C++ concerning 
> template, meta programming syntax, embedded unit tests etc...).
>
> However I think that to popularize/attract people to use D, it 
> is very important, to have a mechanism/feature that allows you 
> to be close to the "zero overhead" situation.
>
> If you have two concurrent libraries (even in different 
> languages), people will adopt the fastest one... As an example, 
> look at the BLAS lib, people do not try to read/understand the 
> code to see how nice it is, they just look at benchmarks and 
> take the fastest implementation for their architecture. IMHO 
> that is the reason why D must let the opportunity, for those 
> who want (library developers for instance) of coding down to 
> the metal: the goal is to have visibility in benchmarks and to 
> attract users.
>
> At least it is my point of view.
>
> -- Vincent

I don't understand this discussion at all. Why not have both? I 
don't need bare metal stuff at the moment but I might one day, 
and I perfectly understand that people may need it. At the same 
time, there are people who are happy with runtime/Phobos/GC. In 
my opinion it's not a question of "either or" but of "both and".