A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

[Dejan Lekic]

On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 11:48:36 UTC, Max Klyga wrote:
> On 2013-01-07 11:31:45 +0000, bearophile said:
>
>> Walter Bright:
>>> http://fgda.pl/post/8/a-look-at-the-d-programming-language
>> 
>> From the article:
>> 
>>> if you only count the natively-compiled ones that could be 
>>> used
>>> instead of C++ and have a similarly looking code. D is the 
>>> best
>>> fit in this category, if not the only fit.1
>> 
>> There is also Rust.
>> 
>>> if (!tmp) throw new Exception("Memory allocation failed");
>> 
>> The error for memory overflow isn't immediate to find.
>> 
>>> The garbage collector in D isn't very fast and stops the
>>> world (halts other threads).
>> 
>> A Rust GC doesn't need to stop more than one thread.
>> 
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> bearophile, WHY U KEEP POSTING ABOUT OTHER LANGUAGES?!
> http://alltheragefaces.com/img/faces/large/misc-jackie-chan-l.png
>
> This comment has no real value, and looks like you are 
> promoting Rust/Ada/whatever instead of D.
> No, seriously, why are you doing this? Its not like Walter, 
> Andrei or any other D core team are not aware of Rust existance.

He is into programming languages, and naturally likes to compare 
them. I believe every language designer does the same, however 
most of them are quiet... :)