Why is D slower than LuaJIT?

[Gary Whatmore]

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

> Lua is a proven, robust language
> 
> Lua has been used in many industrial applications (e.g., Adobe's
> Photoshop Lightroom), with an emphasis on embedded systems (e.g., the
> Ginga middleware for digital TV in Brazil) and games (e.g., World of
> Warcraft). Lua is currently the leading scripting language in games.
> Lua has a solid reference manual and there are several books about it.
> Several versions of Lua have been released and used in real
> applications since its creation in 1993. Lua featured in HOPL III, the
> Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, in June
> 2007.

Are you suggesting D's conferences have smaller publicity value than ACM SIGPLAN HOPL? D has had several international conferences (videos available online) and the ACCU fellowship likes D. The NWCPP group likes D. I find to hard to believe D wouldn't replace Lua everywhere, when the time comes.