Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Chris]

On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 03:47:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:06:01AM +0200, Ramon wrote:
>> On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 23:59:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >Or rather, I *will* be happy as can be once I find a suitable
>> >replacement for a browser. Browsers are by far the most 
>> >ridiculously
>> >resource-consuming beasts ever, given that all they do is to 
>> >display
>> >some text and graphics and let you click on stuff.
>> >
>> >T
>> 
>> Pretty much describes my feelings too, although I've made my 
>> peace
>> with them beasts and like to use xombrero. Although webkit 
>> based
>> (translate: bloat) it's relatively(!) modest and is keyboard
>> controllable.
>
> I'm installing it right now. Let's see if it lives up to its 
> promise.
> ;-)
>
> If it does, I'm ditching opera 12 (the last tolerable version; 
> the
> latest version, opera 15, has lost everything that made opera 
> opera, and
> I've no desire to stay with opera) and switching over. I'll 
> keep firefox
> handy for when bloated features are required, there should be 
> plenty of
> RAM leftover if xombrero isn't as memory-hogging as opera can 
> be. :-P
>
>
>> I assume you know links2 and w3m, both textmode browsers which
>> support tables, frames, and even images. links2 (or was it 
>> elinks?)
>> even supported javascript for some time.
>> You also might like that links by default is non-graphic and 
>> needs a
>> commandline switch to go graphical.
> [...]
>
> I use elinks every now and then... I can't say I'm that 
> impressed with
> its interface, to be honest. There are better ways of doing 
> text mode
> browser UIs. Plus, most sites look trashy in elinks because 
> they're all
> designed with bloated GUIs in mind.
>
> As for JS, nowadays I turn it off by default anyway, and only 
> enable it
> when it's actually needed. Makes the web noticeably faster and, 
> in many
> cases, more pleasant to use. (*cough*dlang.org*cough*)
>
>
> T

I've been testing xombrero for a few days now and I really like 
it. It's fast and it's up to most of the ordinary web browsing 
tasks. Thanks for the tip. It crashed once, though, when trying 
to open a PDF file. Apart from that, it's a good UI for just 
browsing.