Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[bearophile]

Tyler Jameson Little:

> It also has generics, which are runtime generics if I'm not 
> mistaken.

> - templates instead of generics (little reason to take a 
> performance hit)

As far as I know Rust uses monomorphization just like C++ and D 
for generics. The difference in generics between D and Rust is 
that Rust has them strongly typed with type classes (this means 
inside a function templated on an argument, you can't do on that 
argument operations that are not specified in its static type 
class). But unlike the type classes of Haskell, the Rust ones are 
designed to have no run-time hit (but this makes them currently 
less powerful. Some persons are trying to improve this in Rust). 
Perhaps the original poster of this thread is looking for this.

Bye,
bearophile