Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 09:46:11 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 09:35:32 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> And also, always use ldc or gdc, once your project is ready to 
>> go. dmd generated code is slow as it is only a reference 
>> compiler.
>
> but not *dog* *slow*. ;-) if one don't really need to squeeze 
> every possible cycle out of CPU, DMD-generated code is more 
> than acceptable. i, for example, managed to make my scripting 
> language almost as efficient with DMD -O as Lua with gcc -O3. 
> ;-)

No not slow slow. Even in debugging mode it produces acceptable 
results for testing.

A scripting language based on D? Is it open source? I've always 
dreamt of something like that.