D mentioned and criticized

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 13:53:46 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 21:45:16 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 12:02:02 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
>> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 12:00:53 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Nim is much more interesting as a D alternative, in the 
>>>> sense that it is a.
>>>
>>> I give up, kept pressing ENTER while typing a message.
>>
>> Please finish, I have to know what follows "a" :-)
>
> Nim is much more interesting as a D alternative, in the sense 
> that it is a more radical departure from C++. Be it in syntax, 
> meta-programming, and experimental features. It certainly said 
> no to variable-sized integers, while Loci stays with them.

It certainly is interesting. The fact that it compiles to C, C++ 
or Objective-C is also pretty handy.

What turns me off is obligatory indentation à la Python :(, and I 
don't know how the fact that it compiles to C affects the 
language as a whole.