D demoscene compo

[Bill Baxter]

ponce wrote:
> Hi D lovers,
> 
> We managed to win the demo compo at the Numerica Artparty #2 with a D demo entry.
> http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52780
> 
> Source code will be released soon under the WTFPL because some sceners were interested in D.
> 
> 
> As I understood, C++ is usually prefered by demosceners over D because of supposed "performance problems" with D, which are in fact negligible regarding the productivity gain.

Another problem is that a basic "hello world" app in D is usually huge 
by C++ standards, which is a big problem for the smaller demo categories.

But this is really nice.  D could be a great language for doing demos, 
because they need to run fast and you need to be able to write them 
fast, and D is pretty good on both counts.

Maybe d.announce would be a better newsgroup to post this nice news 
about winning a demo compo with D?

--bb