Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 30.06.2011 22:20, schrieb Walter Bright:
> On 6/30/2011 12:22 PM, Adam Ruppe wrote:
>> Being easy and simple is more important to me than being fancy.
> 
> Exactly. Having every "would be nice if" feature can just sink a project
> with it's dead weight.
> 
> Back in the 80's, the company I worked for bought a profiling tool for
> C. Nobody ever used it. I figured part of the problem was the manual was
> an inch thick. That simply discouraged anyone from bothering to invest
> the effort to learn it.
> 
> That's why the profiler for dmd is:
> 
>   dmd foo.d -profile
> 
> Sadly, still nobody uses the profiler.
> 

Are you sure? I've used it several times.
But maybe there should be an article on it or something.
(On why it should be used and how this is done)

Cheers,
- Daniel