D code length vs other languages
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Dec 5 22:21:13 UTC 2019
https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html
I'm unsure of the accuracy of the methodology of determining this, but D does
fairly well in it. It wasn't designed to be a particularly terse language, and
personally I find that excessive terseness makes for a hard-to-understand
language as well as making typos more likely to produce buggy programs.
(Taken to its logical extreme, for a language with no redundancy, any random
sequence of bytes would be a valid program. It would be impossible for a
compiler to diagnose any errors.)
D being about a third less code than C++ is consistent with my unscientific
experience with it.
I'm a little surprised that D is significantly more compact than Rust.
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