Thanks from a python programmer

Imperatorn johan_forsberg_86 at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 4 20:45:15 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 20:14:32 UTC, Curious George wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 09:57:01 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> Just wanted to say thanks to the D community for the tools 
>> I've been using this week to write new utility apps around my 
>> old C libraries.  For years I've used python as the front end 
>> for a stream processor I maintain for work (the das2C library 
>> on github).  I haven't written much D code over the last two 
>> years, but python's performance was again growing tiresome, so 
>> I've come back to D for new application level code.  Others on 
>> these forums have mentioned that a good place to expand D's 
>> user base is the current crop of python programmers.  At least 
>> for folks like me who also maintain C libraries for 
>> performance, that sounds like a great focus area.
>>
>> [...]
>
> I know this might be construed as rude to say this on D's NG, 
> but have you checked out nim? It has python-like syntax, can 
> compile directly to C, and thus utilize such libraries and code 
> easier than D can. It's also a growing language.

As someone who has been writing Nim for a while, I wouldn't 
really say that statement is entirely true. The syntax is more 
familiar and that's probably a big plus, but the experience isn't 
really better than D imo.


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list