Reasons to use D

[Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 15:37:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> In the JavaScript world you have various versions of 
> JavaScript, TypeScript, TypeScript+React, TypeScript+Angular, 
> they coexists. So, as long as you can easily interface between 
> languages it is ok.

> I think language designers should focus more on creating 
> languages for writing libraries to use with other languages 
> than creating host languages. I am very unlikely to use Rust 
> and D as host languages (Swift, Objective-C, Python etc are 
> more likely).

I never understood those TypeScript people. They would learn a 
*new* language, just to compile it into JavaScript?

> I think the JavaScript world is doing much better at the 
> integration part than other platforms. There are now more and 
> more browser-compilers where you can write code for various 
> languages and have it compiled to JavaScript on the fly. Even 
> OCaml:
>
> http://zhanghongbo.me/js-demo/

Maybe there are so many tools for JavaScript, because it is so 
simple?

And if you are in the JavaScript-is-evil camp, it is already 
obvious that there are so many tools.

In either case, they are not doing better. It is their natural 
course of action.