Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

bearophile wrote:
> Lutger:
>> python: 
>>   (x * x for x in xrange(10, 20) if x & 1)
>>
>> D as of now:
>>   map!("a * a")( filter!("a & 1")( range!(10,20) ) )
>>
>> D with extension methods:
>>   range!(10,20).filter!("a & 1").map!("a * a")
>>
>> Not too bad right?
> 
> It's not terrible, but it's far from being nice. Strings are sharp and rough tools, when used for such purposes.
> Map and filter of Phobos2 are lazy only, so if you need an array you have to add another function call (that's named array() in my dlibs, I don't remember the Phobos2 name).

array.


Andrei