Developing blockchain software with D, not C++

[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 03:19:57 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 January 2018 at 23:03:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> Thanks for these thoughts!
>>
>> * (u)cent support
>> * fixes for the shared qualifier
>> * ownership mechanism
>>
>> These took less than 1h to add support for? That would be 
>> awesome... but realistically only the (u)cent sounds like that 
>> size of effort.
>>
>
> Agreed. That would be already a plus, as it would allow to do 
> all the crypto in D.
>

Reading this again, I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding. 
Only cent/ucent took me ~1h to implement. The rest is more 
complex. That being said, having cent/ucent would unlock a great 
deal of performance for crypto libraries, and this is where the 
bottleneck is as far as CPU is concerned in this type of 
application.