Using D

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 11 July 2014 at 17:41:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> Mind you, D is a hindsight language, which makes it wiser. 
>> Does it
>> have flaws? Yes. I come across them sometimes. Is there a 
>> language
>> without flaws? If there is, tell me about it.
>
> When I was still using C/C++ for my personal projects, the 
> problems I
> keep running into drove me to dream about what I'd like in an 
> ideal
> language. I tried writing my own, but didn't get very far -- not
> everyone is a Walter Bright, after all. ;-) So I searched 
> online instead
> -- and found that D is the one language that's closest to my 
> idea of
> what an ideal language should be. There are some things about 
> it that
> aren't quite up to my ideals, but there are also many other 
> areas where
> it *exceeded* my ideals. So in spite of whatever warts or 
> wrinkles D may
> have, it's still the best language out there IMO.
>

I went down a similar path. Always frustrated with existing 
languages. Then I accidentally discovered D and I knew that was 
it! It killed so many birds with one stone. Unicode, 
C-interfaceable (if that's a word), native compilation to begin 
with, then I discovered all the nice features and I've become a 
better programmer simply by trying to understand D. It gives me 
more freedom to put human thought into a computer, to model our 
world in terms a computer can understand, and not the other way 
around.

I still don't get why people who put up with other languages like 
Java and C++, and patiently wait years for simple improvements, 
say, when they see D, "it doesn't have xyz*, it's shit!" I just 
don't get it.

*(usually GC or thread related)