Thoughts about D

[codephantom]

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 00:14:40 UTC, IM wrote:
> - D is unnecessarily a huge language. I remember in DConf 2014, 
> Scott Meyers gave a talk about the last thing D needs, which is 
> a guy like him writing a lot of books covering the many 
> subtleties of the language. However, it seems that the D 
> community went ahead and created exactly this language!

btw. I found this interesting article from Rob Pike (golang).

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html

He discusses the reasons why C++ developers are *not* flocking to 
Go...which interestingly, is the very opposite with regards to D 
(well 'flocking' might be a slight over exaggeration ;-)

Neither (Go's) 'unnecessarily small philosophy', or (C++'s) 
'unnecessarily huge philosophy' are good design philosophies. Go 
programmers will eventually look for 'more', and C++ programmers 
will continue to look for 'less'.

"When all the forces acting upon an object balance each other, 
the object will be at equilibrium."