D in action

[bachmeier]

To my surprise, a paper I wrote quite a while ago was on the 
front page of Hacker News this morning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854369

I started using D while writing that paper. My coauthor was a 
grad student having difficulty programming the simulations in R. 
I looked around and settled on D because the interoperability 
with R was so easy - we only wanted to rewrite the bottleneck, 
not the whole thing. D wasn't just fast, it made it easy to 
convert my thoughts into code. That was ten years ago.