D vs Rust

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 19:40:27 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
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> Decision makers rationalize any other choice pretty easily:
>

There is a useful method in the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" to 
try to be rational about a choice.

1/ Before looking the different solitions, make a list of 
relevant criterion for the problem at hand, and associate 
weights. For example I need to choose a language, let's choose 
Platform Support (weight 5), Familiarity (weight 4) and Speed 
(weight 2).

2/ Rate each alternatives alongside the choosen criterion.
For example D gets 3/5 in Platform Support, 4/4 in Familiarity 
and 1/2 in Speed.
That makes 3 + 5 + 1 = 9 points.

3/ And then _without further thinking_ choose the one with the 
most point.

In the book the example used was with hiring, but I suspect it 
applies to many type of decisions instead.

This method is supposed to outperform intuitive reasoning for 
hiring. In particular overcome some biases. However biases still 
find a way in the choice of criterions.