Thanks from a python programmer

[Chris Piker]

Hi All

Just wanted to say thanks to the D community for the tools I've 
been using this week to write new utility apps around my old C 
libraries.  For years I've used python as the front end for a 
stream processor I maintain for work (the das2C library on 
github).  I haven't written much D code over the last two years, 
but python's performance was again growing tiresome, so I've come 
back to D for new application level code.  Others on these forums 
have mentioned that a good place to expand D's user base is the 
current crop of python programmers.  At least for folks like me 
who also maintain C libraries for performance, that sounds like a 
great focus area.

The only downsides I've experienced with my current round of D 
programming is that:

A) One of my programs compiles/runs fine under dmd, but the exact 
same code exhibits stack corruption under GDC-10.  (that was an 
interesting debugging session)  I haven't tried it under LDC yet.

B) Current github,master dstep output has an amusing bug where it 
writes some of the header definitions right into the middle of 
the "extern (C)" line at the top.

C) Also dexed has a confusing interface so I've started kicking a 
token monthly donation to it's development.  Maybe others will 
join in as well.

These were all minor issues, dstep especially saved me a TON of 
time.

Take care and I hope you keep up the good work, especially in the 
area of Linux IDE development.