D as a prototyping language (for C/C++ projects)

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On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 15:43:42 UTC, dennis luehring 
wrote:
> Am 26.02.2013 16:26, schrieb Craig Dillabaugh:
>> I am a novice D programmer and use C++ in my work. One thing I
>> find myself doing when I need to implement some non-trivial
>> algorithm is that I will originally code it in D and perform
>> testing from there to make sure I have the logic right.
>> Once I have everything working in D I simply port it over to 
>> C++.
>
> i don't get it
>
> you are an novice D programmer and your programs are easy to 
> convert back to C++ so you'r not using too much D specials
>
> whats the point of doing it like this?

I do it as well.
In D you can write code (mostly) much faster.
However, I would not attempt to implement larger projects (more) 
in D, because D is simply not mature enough and lacks too much.
So after writing and testing in D, I port my program/code then in 
C++ and complete it.