Could D be used by Jonathan Blow rather jai language?

aberba karabutaworld at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 20:22:14 UTC 2020


On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 12:57:24 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 12:30:22 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> That's kind of how I use D. The language for prototyping, 
>> scripting, development (web, system), teaching, competitive 
>> programming. I don't have to relearn a new language.
>
> As programmers gain more experience learning a new language is 
> a small challenge. What is expensive is figuring out how to use 
> libraries and frameworks (and to find the ones you need). Also 
> there is a heavy transition costs if you have to port your own 
> libraries/code bases.

You're basically saying the same thing....for the most part. 
However, I see most people think that's all it entails when they 
write D code like Java code. Every language has its own idiomatic 
way of doing things and its own tricks.



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