Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 12:44:54 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 15:29:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> DScript. Your scripting language already fulfills things that 
>> were on my wishlist (easy D interop).
>
> hey, both GML and DACS has some of that too! ;-)
>
> VM["print"] = (string s) { writeln(s); };
> VM["add"] = (int a, int b) => a+b;
>
> wow, now we can print things from script, and (for some unknown 
> reason) use function to add two numbers. with DACS you still 
> have to declare function prototypes, but with GML it will "just 
> work" (including conversion from internal nan-boxed doubles to 
> strings and ints, and back).
>
> GML is somewhat limited, but can be extended, and it almost as 
> fast as Lua. DACS, with it's JIT, is sometimes even comparable 
> to gcc -O2 (but only sometimes, lol; and LuaJIT still makes it 
> look like a snail).

Cool. Maybe we should continue this here

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/njfdch$2627$1@digitalmars.com