Uphill

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 20:36:47 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> Without wishing to dwell on the negatives of alternatives, 
> might I ask what made you decide to settle on D?  Do you have 
> collaborators who write code and, if so, how did the 
> discussions with them go about this?  For your use case, what 
> have been the main gains you have seen and how long did it take 
> before these started to come through?

I'm not weaselcat, but I'm an academic and I also tried out Rust 
before using D. I came to the conclusion that there was no way I 
could ever expect any collaborator to use Rust. The syntax was 
crazy. The requirement to study memory management issues 
(something completely irrelevant) before even reading the code 
was a non-starter. It's just a complicated language that is not 
suited for the average programmer.

D is different. As long as I avoid templates, it's easy to read 
the code I've written, without any experience with the language. 
I tried C++ (Dirk Eddelbuettel devoted a section of his Rcpp book 
to an example I contributed), Rust, and Go. The other realistic 
alternative was Go, but I chose D as a matter of personal 
preference.