Coolest D features

[Georg Wrede]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jason House wrote:
> 
>> In a head to head C vs. D comparison on the computer go mailing list. 
>> It was reported that D was slower than C by a factor of 1.5.  That's 
>> close enough for me to consider D sufficiently fast.  I don't know how 
>> that compares to Java.
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/computer-go@computer-go.org/msg00663.html
> 
> I bet that if they compared DMD with DMC, they'd have found no 
> difference. If you write "C style" code in D, you will get exactly the 
> same results you get from C.

The same guy elaborates a bit in

http://www.mail-archive.com/computer-go@computer-go.org/msg00666.html

and it actually ends up sounding like it should have been posted in this 
thread.

A quote: "You can write code a little faster in D [than C], but you can
write finished bug-free code a LOT faster."