Some Notes on 'D for the Win'

[nan0a via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 23 August 2014 at 18:29:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2ed9ah/some_notes_on_d_for_the_win/
>
> http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/dlang-part2/

I posted in the thread (under the same name as here) and 
regularly discuss D in /r/programming. I really enjoy trying out 
new languages and I think D is excellent - I was up and running 
in it in just a few days. TDP+Ali's book are great references. 
One of the things I like the best about D is the community, it's 
very lively. I have a few complaints about the language because 
nothing is perfect(e.g, attribute puke), but overall I find the 
language extremely usable.

Rust was mentioned a few times in the thread -- I've been using 
Rust for a while too(which I see constantly mentioned anytime D 
is) and I'm always tripping over my own feet trying to understand 
the memory/type system, lifetimes, etc. I'm not even going to 
claim that I'm a good programmer, but I'm not sure how I feel 
about Rust being widely adopted outside of extremely memory-safe 
applications(e.g, Mozilla's Servo.) The obvious ML/functional 
inspiration is also going to be a stumbling block for 
C/C++/Java/etc programmers IMO, I've done some hobby work with 
Haskell so I wasn't exactly fish out of water but I could 
understand why some may be.

Keep up the great work on D.