D is our last hope

[Abdulhaq]

On Saturday, 16 December 2023 at 21:11:42 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 14:02:26 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 05:40:04 UTC, Hors wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 15:02:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 21:21:46 UTC, Bradley Chatha 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> I suppose this is why my experience with D has been much 
>>>> better than reported by others. When I started, I was able 
>>>> to call into R for anything I needed, with no loss of 
>>>> efficiency. Need a database? It's there. Need a machine 
>>>> learning library like TensorFlow? It's there. Need parallel 
>>>> random number generation? It's there.
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> D is not the best when it comes to interop with other 
>>> languages
>>
>> It's not terribly helpful to post something like that without 
>> elaborating. I've been doing that for ten years and it works 
>> great.
>
> Sometimes I wonder how many of the D criticisms come from those 
> who have been using the language for yrs in this community or 
> have experience enough to make an informed critique.
>
>
> From my limited understanding, D allows nogc code, GC code, 
> safe code, interop with many langs, etc. yet it's always not 
> enough for some reason.
>
> I wonder how many of those folks are really serious about using 
> the language cus it *seems* to me that a lot of experienced D 
> devs are quietly getting things done.
>
>
> Is there something I'm missing?

Well said