Official compiler

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 02/18/2016 09:22 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> Lots of programmers out there use and love languages that are far slower
> than any code DMD produces (think JavaScript, Python, Ruby). So I see no
> point here.

While that's true, my impression is most of the users and fans of those 
languages use them *because* they're fundamentally dynamic (unlike D), 
deliberately lacks every feature they possibly CAN lack (unlike D), and 
lack all the compile-time safety that D promotes as features.

So regarding those langauges' reduced speed, while many of their users 
don't care one bit ("why aren't you a consumer whore like me? go buy a 
new machine, you dinosaur!"), there seems to also be a large population 
that merely *tolerates* the lower speed for the sake of the dynamicness 
and the lack-of-compile-time-anything that they love. The first group 
will likely never be tempted by D regardless, but for the second group, 
a language that's fast like C/C++ but not nearly as unproductive IS 
appealing, and even seems to be something they're often on the lookout for.