Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 09:14:18 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
> On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> D really needs its killer use case if it is to move away from 
>> that list.
>
> D is a lot like Scala on the JVM: Both language have myriads of 
> language features and bells and whistles, but there is no 
> killer feature in the language itself.

For me the killer feature is meta-programming. No other language 
comes close.

Take the wasm-reader [1] library I recently wrote for instance. 
While not feature complete - nor a fair direct comparison - it is 
far less code than anything in C++ [2] or Rust [3].

[1] 
https://github.com/skoppe/wasm-reader/blob/master/source/wasm_reader/reader.d
[2] 
https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/blob/master/src/wasm/wasm-binary.cpp
[3] 
https://github.com/rustwasm/twiggy/blob/master/parser/wasm_parse/mod.rs