Is D still alive?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:ihq66j$2llc$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Trass3r wrote:
>> But once you had a test drive, you just can't get out anymore.
>
> I've had more than one longtime C++ expert tell me that after using D for 
> a while, then for work reasons get forced back into C++, just find 
> themselves cringing every time they edit it.

Heh, D is programmer crack :)

I use Haxe a lot and it's by no means a bad langauge overall, as far as 
languages go. Beats the snot out of PHP and ActionScript. But I frequently 
find myself cursing at it for not being able to handle things that I take 
for granted in D. Heck, just the other day I was going nuts because I had 5 
objects that I needed to do some common trivial setup to, and there was *no* 
way to do it in a loop. No change I made ever "stuck" - it was as if the 
objects forgot they were reference types. Nothing worked. At least a full 
half-hour later, maybe a full hour, I ended up just copy-pasting the same 
damn code 5 times, once for each object. In D, I would have stuck them all 
in an array, typed "foreach...", and been done in under a minute.