Investigation: downsides of being generic and correct

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 17 May 2013 at 10:09:11 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> If naive D code has to be significantly faster than optimised C 
> for people to not go "D sucks, it's only as fast as python" 
> then we're pretty much doomed by peoples stupidity.

No. The whole benefit of D is lost if you have to tweak 
everything in complex way to get it run fast.

It means we failed at designing nice API.

Dev don't have years to sped on every existing language to know 
if it is good or not and figure out all the subtelties.