Reasons to use D

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On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 16:32:52 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> oh yeah, you are right. That's one thing I do like about D 
> though: I find it so much easier to remember (perhaps because I 
> wrote most the libs I use myself). I forget the difference 
> between stuff like substr and substring in Javascript or chop 
> and chomp in Ruby and so on. I have to refer to the docs to 
> remember this stuff, even when I write it all the time.
>
> I find D's ways to be much easier to store in the brain, 
> despite D arguably being a bigger, more complex language.

Maybe because the static type system allows for overloading and 
so all of these utility functions don't have to do a million 
different things depending on what you pass to them.