Top 3 use cases for D

[andy]

On Friday, 27 September 2024 at 19:15:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Quick prototyping of programs
The runnable unit-tests in the docs make exploration of the 
stdlib very fast. This is almost ten percent as good as a REPL, 
which is much better than what most compiled languages offer.

> I'd say the small- to medium-sized application zone is where D 
> excels the most at.
It definitely has some competitive advantages that are most 
apparent in this zone.
Some small nits that would help here:
Integrated unittests already help a lot, but I wish one of the 
popular unittest frameworks were included in the stdlib to make 
it zero-friction.
Tuples and sumtypes are important QoL features that are missing 
for me that would reduce boilerplate and increase expressiveness 
for the straightforward data-transformation programs.