D as a betterC a game changer ?

[John Gabriele]

On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 20:53:46 UTC, Dan Partelly 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 19:13:15 UTC, John Gabriele 
> wrote:
>>
>> Although I don't know D very well yet, it sounds like Russel 
>> hits the nail precisely on the head here. FWICT, folks have 
>> lately used scripting languages (ex. Python, Perl, Ruby) for 
>> larger and larger programs (and even JS+Node for local apps),
>
> Resulting in terrible software. Take text editors written in 
> JS+Electron. Slow bloated crap. {snip}

Maybe I wasn't being very clear there. Also, my unedited comment 
on that was:

> Although I don't know D very well yet, it sounds like Russel 
> hits the nail precisely on the head here. FWICT, folks have 
> lately used scripting languages (ex. Python, Perl, Ruby) for 
> larger and larger programs (and even JS+Node for local apps), 
> but it seems to me like the pendulum is swinging back the other 
> way as everyone wants optional types and also JIT 
> implementations like [PyPy](http://pypy.org/).

with my point being that I think we're seeing many scripting 
language users now wanting the features that D already has 
(types, type inference, high performance and less resource usage 
(natively compiled)). I think it's a good time for D to attract 
those users.