I wish I could use D for everything

[Steve Teale]

bearophile Wrote:

> Walter Bright:
> >D aims to reduce project costs by reducing training time and shortening development time.<
> 
> I agree that this is very important. Helping the programmer avoid bugs and helping her to follow good design practices are among the most important qualities of a programming language, because in practical programming often most time (= money) is spent debugging programs and updating them.
> 
> But you are comparing D with C++, because programming in D1 is faster and often simpler than doing the same in C++.
> 
> But today most people use languages like Java, Python, C#, that often shorten developing time even more than D1.
> D1 is almost a system language, so it's not easy to compete with the productivity of application languages designed to put the programmer first and the CPU second.
> 
> And D2 is not an easy&simple language, you need a good amount of time to learn/teach it, more than Java for example.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

Can't agree about Java. To me, it has always been a pain in the arse. C# yes, because of the wonderful documentation.

But I can still go faster in D just flying by the seat of my pants!