It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 11/14/2018 07:57 AM, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 November 2018 at 15:49:48 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> I recall D being briefly mentioned in the Range specification. They 
>> rejected D's approach because they wanted to build on existing 
>> iterator-based code.
> 
> It's actually quite a bit more than I remembered:
> 
> https://ericniebler.github.io/std/wg21/D4128.html#iterator-operations-are-primitive 
> 

Eric appeared on D forums after his range presentation on the following 
thread where Walter responded with the history of ranges here:

   https://forum.dlang.org/thread/hatpfdftwkycjxwxcthe@forum.dlang.org

Ali