D as a betterC a game changer ?

[Dan Partelly]

On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 19:13:15 UTC, John Gabriele 
wrote:
>
> Although I don't know D very well yet, it sounds like Russel 
> hits the nail precisely on the head here. FWICT, folks have 
> lately used scripting languages (ex. Python, Perl, Ruby) for 
> larger and larger programs (and even JS+Node for local apps),

Resulting in terrible software. Take text editors written in 
JS+Electron. Slow bloated crap.Noticeable slow on a 2 core i5 
MacBook Pro with 8Gb RAM. Press key , notice delay, see char on 
sceen. Really ???? I mean, REALLY ?  I had a 8086 which could 
edit text with no issue. Had a C64 with 64kb or RAM too which was 
up to the task of editing text.  Look at how slow Visual Studio 
became in time as more and more of it was written in managed 
languages and non-native code.  Android is pitifully slow , and 
not because of Linux.

Democratization of programming through JS/ PhP / Perl and other 
scripts was great for society because it empowered a lot of 
humans. But also created means to write bloated, inefficient, 
terribly slow software.  Nuclear weapons used where a surgeon's 
tool is mandated.