ACCU 2013 and D

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On Sunday, 20 January 2013 at 09:15:36 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> As some of you know, the C User Group UK and the European C and 
> C++ User
> Group long ago merged to create the Association of C and C++ 
> Users
> (ACCU). Over the years, the emphasis on C and C++ gave way to a 
> more
> diverse approach including patterns, Java, Python, Go, agile 
> processes.
> Even the name of the group formally changed to ACCU to lose the 
> direct C
> and C++ link. Due to the history, members of the group had and 
> retain
> roles with the British Standards Institute, as the UK 
> representatives on
> the C and C++ standards committees, especially the C++ one. 
> When it is
> the UK's turn to host a C++ standards committee meeting, the 
> meeting is
> either before or after the ACCU conference, and the obvious 
> suspects get
> drafted in to do keynotes and other talks at the conference, as 
> well as
> ACCU members attending the open meetings of JTC1/SC22/WG21.
> http://accu.org/index.php/conferences/accu_conference_2013
>
> This seems like an ideal opportunity to do a lightning talk (5 
> mins) on
> why C++ is crap and D is the only native code language that 
> should be
> used. (I have a history in this group of bashing C++ :-) It 
> would be
> really helpful to create a few one liners (with code examples) 
> as to why
> D is the clear language of choice for native code working and, 
> C++, Go,
> Rust, Clay, etc. should be consigned to the dustbin of history. 
> People
> will expect me to emphasize concurrency and parallelism issues 
> so it
> would be good to throw others into the mix as well.
>
> Thanks in advance for any input. Attribution of sources if 
> appropriate
> will be given unless people prefer anonymity!

Arrays and slices. They might be very "basic" features, but don't 
underestimate how having something basic as a starting point can 
transcend through an entire language.

Also: Unicode. And algorithms that are Unicode aware.

Forget the high level fancy stuff. I cam to D for all those basic 
things. All the rest is (very tasty) sugar.