Spotted on twitter: Rust user enthusiastically blogs about moving to D

[Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 8 March 2017 at 04:56:55 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 March 2017 at 19:09:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>
>> Yep. If you want to give someone enough rope to get maximum 
>> performance, you have to give them enough rope to shoot 
>> themselves in the foot. Once you've moved into this territory, 
>> you've made a decision to throw away safety and convenience in 
>> the name of performance, and you better understand what you're 
>> doing.
>
> I think ATS language is a contradiction here, it combines max 
> performance (at some point it was #1 at the PL shootout, faster 
> than C) with static guarantees Rust folks could only dream 
> about. But the price you pay is amount of intellectual efforts 
> (and time, a lot of time!) to write any non-trivial program.

Performance, Safety and Productivity. You can only choose two.