Why I'm Excited about D
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Mon Apr 6 20:02:39 PDT 2015
On Monday, 6 April 2015 at 23:51:17 UTC, Adam Hawkins wrote:
> Hello everyone, this is my first post on the forum. I've been
> investigating the language for the past few weeks. I was able
> to complete my first useful program thanks to very helpful
> people in #d on IRC . The experience made me very interested in
> the language and improving the community around it.
>
> I'm primarily Ruby developer (been so about the last 7-8 years)
> doing web stuff with significant JavaScript work as well. I
> wrote a blog post on why I'm excited about D. You can read it
> here: http://hawkins.io/2015/04/excited-about-d/.
>
> I've been reading the forums here so I can see that there is a
> focus on improving the marketing for the language and growing
> the community. I see most of the effort is geared towards C++
> programmers, but have you considered looking at us dynamic
> languages folk? I see a big upside for us. Moving from Ruby to
> D (my case) gives me power & performance. I still have OOP
> techniques but I still have functional things like closures and
> all that good stuff. Only trade off in the Ruby case is
> metaprogramming. All in all I think there is a significant
> value promise for those of us doing backend services for folks
> like me.
>
> Regardless, I figured it might be interesting to hear about
> some experience coming to the language from a different
> perspective. Cheers!
Very nice article. I have two suggestions:
import std.stdio, std.parallelism;
auto names = [ "Adam Hawkins", "Peter Esselius" ];
foreach(name; taskPool.parallel(names)) {
writeln(name);
}
There is a convenience function in std.parallelism that allows
you to write the following instead for your foreach loop:
foreach (name; names.parallel) {
writeln(name);
}
Also, @system, @trusted, @safe don't really have much to do with
optimization or access levels, but safety. Theoretically, if all
of your code is @safe, then it is impossible for your program to
corrupt memory.
Also, have you considered posting this article to Hacker
News/Reddit?
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