Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:11:56 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:35:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 1/11/15 7:29 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>>> Grøstad wrote:
>>>> Maybe we should do a comparison thread between D and Rust. 
>>>> It might be
>>>> interesting, and perhaps encourage some improvements to D.
>>>
>>> I am actually writing a "Rust guide as read by D developer" 
>>> article now
>>> making random notes on topic. But I don't see this affecting 
>>> D much as
>>> most of the things  I liked in Rust more were also things I 
>>> complained
>>> about in D for ages before.
>>
>> That sounds like a very interesting article. Looking forward 
>> to it. -- Andrei
>
>
> http://blog.dicebot.lv/2015/01/thoughts-about-rust-from-d-programmer.html
>
> Here it is, as promised. It is not very complete but it was 
> getting pretty damn long so I decided to limit myself to 
> something that caught my eye first.
>
> I'd really appreciate someone doing the proof reading of my 
> terrible English before reddit'ing away :)

There's a lot of missing articles (the/an/a), but other than that 
it's quite readable.

The import example misses that in D you can just do:

import mod1 = my.long.mod1;
import mod2 = my.long.mod2;