Reasons to use D

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On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 16:07:09 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
> I never understood those TypeScript people. They would learn a 
> *new* language, just to compile it into JavaScript?

It isn't a new language. It is where ECMAScript is going + 
structural typing and generics. The typing helps with catching 
errors at compile time and gives you much better IDE support 
(completion).

It would be nice to have a stricter version of it, but what is 
good about TS is that you can put static typing over existing 
code bases that are pure Javascript (and browser APIs). So it is 
very interoperable, but not strict.

> 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.

Not sure what you meant by "natural course". The JavaScript/HTTP 
platform is doing better because the tool developers are forced 
to be interoperable with what is there (browsers/http).

That means it is more obvious that inventing an isolated universe 
is a bad idea, and that you need 100% interoperability to do 
well, not 50%.

If D had 100% interop with C++ then it would do much better, 
selling a 50% solution is difficult. But that would take radical 
changes...