What are the prominent upsides of the D programming language?

[Per Nordlöw]

On Saturday, 26 September 2020 at 07:32:20 UTC, tastyminerals 
wrote:
> I would also add that Julia is very memory hungry and in some 
> cases outdoes Java in this regard. I have hard time 
> understanding why Julia gets so much praise on HN despite such 
> glaring performance flaws... The only thing I can imagine why 
> ppl wave performance arguments off is great and growing Julia's 
> ecosystem.

Yes, Julia is unreasonable memory hungry. I had to disable it for 
inputs above 5000 functions in

https://github.com/nordlow/compiler-benchmark

For details on the superiority of D's compilation speed see

https://github.com/nordlow/compiler-benchmark#conclusions-from-sample-run-shown-below