Why are you using D instead of Rust?

[Antonio]

On Sunday, 24 October 2021 at 21:18:06 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

> I am glad we can do that but the number of arrays allocated 
> there is *I think* 4 per sorted() call. Ouch!
>
>
> D is not Haskell either so let's at least pick a random pivot. 
> ;)
>
> Ali
> "Who possibly missed a joke."

Hi Ali,

This is only an example of expressiveness: no one in is right 
mind (I don't know if this is how it is said in english) will 
include this piece of code as a real sorting code.

But, and this is really interesting, the expression performs 
really well compared with other programming languages similar 
ones:  Python, Julia, Scala, Javascript, Crystal, Nim:  no one of 
them beats D.  https://github.com/ddcovery/expressive_sort

Javascript sorprised me a lot.  It is incredibly performant 
compared with Python, Julia, Scala... even Nim!!!:

I tried with Rust, but it was impossible to create an 
intelligible version.


May be an expression is useless but, at least, it is an 
expression :-).