Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> On 6/30/2011 12:22 PM, Adam Ruppe wrote:
>> Being easy and simple is more important to me than being fancy.
>
> Exactly. Having every "would be nice if" feature can just sink a project 
> with it's dead weight.
>
> Back in the 80's, the company I worked for bought a profiling tool for C. 
> Nobody ever used it. I figured part of the problem was the manual was an 
> inch thick. That simply discouraged anyone from bothering to invest the 
> effort to learn it.
>
> That's why the profiler for dmd is:
>
>   dmd foo.d -profile
>
> Sadly, still nobody uses the profiler.
>
>

I use it.  The output is initially hard to understand, though, until you 1. 
See an explanation of it, and 2. Actually notice that there's a timing chart 
way down at the bottom after all the fan-in/fan-out.

Some demangling would be really nice in it though.