Advertise D's great compatibilty with JavaScript

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On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 10:38:49 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
> Something I really appreciate a lot with D is how close it is 
> to JavaScript.
>
> For instance, I have to maintain two similar versions of 
> Pendown, a Markdown alternative for colored documents.
>
> There is a server-side version, in D :
>
>     https://github.com/senselogic/PENDOWN/blob/master/pendown.d
>
> And a client-side version, in JavaScript :
>
>     https://github.com/senselogic/PENDOWN/blob/master/pendown.js
>
> If you look at both file, you should see how close both files 
> are.
>
> Thanks to a few methods (charAt, slice, push, pop, etc) added 
> to the string and array types, when I change a function 
> implementation in one version, all I have to do is copy-paste 
> the modifications in the other file and just make a few minor 
> changes (==/===, ~/+, etc).
>
> Everything else works unchanged : string and array methods 
> (length, split, join, startsWith, endsWith), closures, etc.
>
> I think that's really AWESOME to have designed the D language 
> and its standard library in such a way, keeping it so close to 
> JavaScript, the most used scripting languages on earth !!!
>
> That's why I personally advertise it like a "strongly-typed 
> super-powered JavaScript", as it is the best scripting language 
> I know.
>
> Even if D is obviously much more than that, this still 
> accurately describes what many programmers should feel when 
> using this fantastic language.
>
> Therefore I think that this closeness is something that should 
> be advertised much more, so that people know that :
> - a JavaScript programmer will immediately feel at home with D;
> - porting text manipulation code back and forth between D and 
> JavaScript is just a breeze.

We should be careful not to make *too* close a comparison. While 
Javascript is a necessary evil for web applications and some 
people do like it, I get the feeling that it's becoming less and 
less liked. It's not quite a fractal of bad design like PHP, but 
it has more than a few drastic shortcomings and design flaws.