I wish I could use D for everything

[Brad Roberts]

Don't discount the major advantage of being a second round design and
implementation as well.  I'm sure you learned a lot in the first iteration that
fed directly into not making the same set of mistakes again.

Not that D isn't the better language, but there's so many variables in
situations like this that you really can't draw significant conclusions from them.

All that said.. yay for going with D and having success with it, for whatever
the reasons. :)

Later,
Brad

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> For another real world example, we had a server daemon written in Java
> and it took forever, had huge problems, cost us quite a bit, etc. etc.
> 
> We decided to have the same server rewritten in D, and it took
> significantly less time, works correctly according to spec, doesn't
> crash/hang half as often (the Java server would die in a way that made
> it appear to still be up, made us crazy), and more.
> 
> Sure, maybe this is a reflection of the programmer who worked on it -
> but in the end, D was by far the better route for us.
> 
> -[Unknown]
> 
> 
> 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