Real D

[Chris Piker]

On Saturday, 13 April 2024 at 18:32:12 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> C is not the best programming language, by a longshot. I would 
> hate to write code in C.
>
> It's just that the C ecosystem is *vast*.

C programmer here. I've written thousands of lines of new C code 
just this year (new features for a large existing code-base).

For what it's worth, D is the first compiled language to get me 
to enthusiastically change languages. I tried a few others first. 
C++ boost library errors were just too damn hard to grok, and the 
Java was too verbose for me. C# was too Windows centric, and the 
associated tool chain was mega-bloated. Go was missing too many 
features. Rust was bizarre. In contrast, D is terse, almost a 
flexible as python, and not too opinionated, so I selected it as 
the best option at the time and haven't looked back.

Anyway, I think the D core developers are doing a lot of things 
right and the continual questioning of the core language 
philosophy seems like a waste of time to me.  I was able to 
accomplish tasks in D in 2023 that I would never have attempted 
in C + Python.  I'm able to support a whole space mission's 
science ground support architecture pretty much on my own.  D let 
me do that.  Other languages probably could have too, but I know 
this one did and I appreciate everyone's work in getting D this 
far.

Thanks for the tools, they make my job easier.