Interview at Lang.NEXT

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On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:19:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/
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> Andrei

When that person made the statement about expressing his mental 
model in a simpler way that is still somewhat fast, and then 
optimizing/adding annotations/etc. after he gets it working, I 
kept expecting you to mention RDMD and D's ability to be used for 
scripting, and purity/nothrow/@safe/@nogc inference. This is an 
advantage D has over Rust and C++. With Rust especially, there is 
no way to avoid dealing with its pointer semantics, as they 
permeate the language. With D, you can write in a C or even 
Python-like way (while not having to worry about ownership, 
memory, etc. as the GC handles it for you), but you can then 
optimize and add annotations to your code to get a lot more 
performance and safety once your initial implementation is 
working.