Why I'm Excited about D

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/6/2015 4:51 PM, 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!

This is a nice article, thanks!

I noticed a bug in one of the examples:

   assert("Adam Hawkins" == myName());

should be:

   assert("Adam Hawkins" == myName());