D easily overlooked?

porter via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 20 09:12:30 PDT 2017


On Thursday, 20 July 2017 at 15:40:04 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:

> After going back recently to good old Pascal. More specific the 
> freepascal compiler combined with Visual Studio Code + 
> Omnipascal, ... it felt just more easy.
>
> In a few days time after reading up all the details, i got 
> myself a nice multithreaded http server build without using any 
> standardized framework. Sure it is missing a lot of 
> functionality but i felt more proud writing it in Pascal, then 
> i did writing the same in D
>
> The easy to write cross platform Dlls. The more clean design to 
> use those DLL loading without relying on dlsym all the time. 
> The time wasted trying to figure that out in D to get it 
> working correctly. *uch* ...
>
> While the language is indeed more "verbose" ( not that much ), 
> the compiler does less checking, it just is more "fun". D feels 
> more like work. Now it also helps that there is massive amount 
> of more documentation for pascal out there, even if its old.


> At the same Pascal compiles in 0.1 second, give me the speed 
> similar(actually faster) than D, cross platform support, no 
> need to mess with different compiler ( dmd for compile, ldc for 
> speed ). Its even more TTD then D :)
>
> Windows: Download, install, runs. It integrates perfectly with 
> the Visual Studio Code plugin. Linux a simple apt-get command. 
> No need to download a deb or run a shell script.
>

i did the same, but use for windows programs AWD Modula. its 
free, compiles fast and is used commercially.
i QUIT on D, since you can't install and use, for all the reasons 
you describe. a consequence for me was to warn people at work to 
use it.



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