Recommendations on porting Python to D

[bauss]

On Friday, 20 December 2024 at 00:53:30 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 12:36:22 UTC, johnwalker wrote:
>> You might want to check out 
>> [Mojo](https://syntaxscenarios.com/mojo). It’s great for 
>> modernizing Python code and offers high performance with 
>> Python interoperability
>
> Thanks for the recommendation but I'm specifically looking to 
> convert my legacy python to D. The rest of the system I've 
> build is in D and I'd prefer single source language for ease of 
> development and maintenance. There's already PyD for dual 
> language development.
>
> Though I probably shouldn't give in, this response does break 
> my cool a little bit, so one time only...
>
> rant /
> *It's perfectly okay to like other languages much better then 
> D, but I find it off-putting when people advocate for other 
> languages in a language specific forum. I don't go on Python 
> sites and tell them to use something else, nor do I go to the 
> locally owned automotive shop and tell customers in the lobby 
> to get their car fixed somewhere else.*
>
> *The D forum maintainers are very tolerant (hats off to them) 
> but it's just crass to do this, especially on a site maintained 
> by volunteers. You probably didn't mean much by the 
> recommendation, but think of the many hours that D developers 
> have poured into making the language useful and how 
> disheartening it must be for them to see folks trying to pull 
> away support on their own forum.*
>
> *As far as I can tell, Mojo has nothing to do with D nor with 
> the thread topic.*
> / rant

I agree with your post so much.

It's like answering "Why not fry a nugget instead?" to the 
question "How do I fry an egg?"