How fast is D compilation compared to C++?

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On Saturday, 24 September 2022 at 11:24:11 UTC, Tejas wrote:
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> What kind of requirements? They even have officially suppported 
> Windows realeases now, no Apple-ism in sight, AFAICT

Maybe this is too much OT.

Swift was made open source a while ago and as a consequence of 
that is that people started to port it to other platforms. How 
much this is supported by Apple, I cannot say but probably not 
much. However, Apple probably don't mind as it makes the language 
more popular. When Apple develops Swift and its libraries in 
house they probably try to write it as portable as possible. The 
same is similar for C#, that its cross platform support really 
helps advance the popularity of the language.

When it comes to requirements, this is only my speculation. 
Language engineers are kind of peculiar people, at least about 
all I have met. It takes a high level of knowledge to develop 
languages and it turn this makes these persons to become stuck in 
their academic topics and forget that computer languages are made 
to be used by average SW developers. Apple hired a bunch of very 
skilled engineers, some from the Rust team which is obvious. In 
such organization there is a management to pull these engineers 
in ears to make the language user friendly and so that it appeals 
to the masses. You can clearly see it in Swift how they cleaned 
up the syntax compared to Rust and removed the explicit memory 
management. The question is how much that would have happened if 
they language engineers would have their own way.

In Apple there is a management to make "the customers are always 
right" versus "the language developer is always right". This is 
highly simplified of course.