D easily overlooked?

solidstate1991 via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 19 17:11:39 PDT 2017


On Sunday, 16 July 2017 at 08:37:53 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
> Let's look how D is "sold" on dlang.org :
>
> "D is a general-purpose programming language with static 
> typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax. It combines 
> efficiency, control and modeling power with safety and 
> programmer productivity."
>
> And then :
>
> "Why D ?
>
> 1. Convenience (type inference, GC, arrays, slices, ranges, etc)
>
> 2. Power (classic polymorphism, value semantics, functional 
> style, generics, generative programming, contract programming, 
> concurrency, etc)
>
> 3. Efficiency (native code, fast and safe, native pointers, 
> etc)."
>
> Do you see the difference between those website ?
>
> Language features versus real-world usage, again !!!

So this is what Andrei meant when he once mentioned D's 
historical lack of vision.


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