Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project
Simen Haugen
simen.haugen at pandavre.com
Tue May 20 00:17:05 PDT 2008
"Robert Fraser" <fraserofthenight at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:g0t0gj$11sh$2 at digitalmars.com...
> bearophile wrote:
>> Python/Ruby and D are in two quite different classes of languages.
>> Usually where you use one of them you don't want to use the other.
>
> Not necessarily. D is still useful for quick scripting. More to the point,
> webapps are often written with Ruby/Python/Perl backends which could be
> swapped out for one written in a native language to help performance.
I agree with the scripting. I'm still using quite a lot of python, but when
I'm doing small programs I'm often using D to avoid the bloat of py2exe.
Too sad I haven't gotten PyD to work with larger classes, and it seems it
won't be updated until D2.
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