Why I'm Excited about D

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/6/15 8:51 PM, Adam Hawkins wrote:
> Hello everyone, this is my first post on the forum. I've been
> investigating the language for the past few weeks. I was able to
> complete my first useful program thanks to very helpful people in #d on
> IRC . The experience made me very interested in the language and
> improving the community around it.
>
> I'm primarily Ruby developer (been so about the last 7-8 years) doing
> web stuff with significant JavaScript work as well. I wrote a blog post
> on why I'm excited about D. You can read it here:
> http://hawkins.io/2015/04/excited-about-d/.
>
> I've been reading the forums here so I can see that there is a focus on
> improving the marketing for the language and growing the community. I
> see most of the effort is geared towards C++ programmers, but have you
> considered looking at us dynamic languages folk? I see a big upside for
> us. Moving from Ruby to D (my case) gives me power & performance. I
> still have OOP techniques but I still have functional things like
> closures and all that good stuff. Only trade off in the Ruby case is
> metaprogramming. All in all I think there is a significant value promise
> for those of us doing backend services for folks like me.
>
> Regardless, I figured it might be interesting to hear about some
> experience coming to the language from a different perspective. Cheers!

"Ruby was never intended to be correct" -> I think Ruby is the most 
correct language I've seen around.

~~~
a = []
a << a
p a         #=> [[...]]
p a == a[0] #=> true
~~~

This is just an example. Using Ruby and reading its source code  I found 
so many things that they get right, like border-cases, that I'm 
surprised you say that.

It's true that Ruby is slow, but only because their priority is correctness.