How do you use D?

[Anton Fediushin via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
> How do you use D?

For personal projects, from low-level system hacking (like 
implementing own reference counted struct) to high-level web apps.

> just to learn something new? (I would easily argue that 
> learning D will make you a better C++ programmer, maybe not the 
> most efficient way, but I a sure it i very effective)

Yup, with D I learned a lot of new programming techniques, like 
meta-programming, CTFE, Range-based algorithms etc. I really 
enjoy how quickly I can switch between low- and high-level code 
without changing the language.
I think this is the main reason why I stayed with D, not with 
Go/Rust. They're good programming languages, but they force you 
to code in the way they call "idiomatic", not in the way you want 
to.
D is a great language, because with all flexibility it has, D 
community haven't been splitted like in C++.

> What is you D setup at work, which compiler, which IDE?

Latest DMD, Emacs and DUB. I also have LDC and GDC installed for 
testing. DMD compiles stuff faster than other compilers and has 
all latest things I need.

> And any other fun facts you may want to share :)

It's a feature (c) Walter Bright, everytime somebody asks about 
bugs in D