Increasing D's visibility

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 14:45:59 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/16/14, 11:59 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>
>>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13487
>>
>> If the upload conditions and site are sufficiently good I am 
>> willing to
>> offer some implementations in D and to keep them updated. I 
>> suggest to
>> add two D versions for some benchmarks, one that shows short 
>> high level
>> code, and one that shows longer hairier fast code.
>>
>> In some cases I'd even like to show a third "safe" version 
>> (that tries
>> to be more correct), but most Shootout/ComputerGame benchmarks 
>> are not
>> very fit for this (you can see some examples of this on 
>> Rosettacode).
>
> I'm glad folks like Alexander, Russel, and yourself are 
> interested in chipping in. Thanks!
>
> Let's do it all on the github repo. Add a directory e.g. 
> tools/benchmarks/ and organize things in there.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Would this be limited to the Computer Language Benchmarks Game?
This paper has gotten a lot of attention among economists:

http://www.econ.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/comparison_languages.pdf

They mention D, but only to say "D, which generates code usually
roughly of the same speed as C++, is less popular". Demonstrating
that you can write code that is competitive with C++ but in an
elegant language would be powerful.

Another site is

http://quant-econ.net/

which has gotten a lot of attention. It uses Python. I'd like to
write D versions of the programs to demonstrate that you can have
a language that's both nicer than Python and much, much faster.