Tsoding streamed about D

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 25/03/2025 12:08 AM, Martyn wrote:
> Point is, he is going through the emotions of someone looking into a 
> language that povides his needs. If he did not find out about BetterC, 
> he might not have given Dlang the time of day -- and no stream.
> 
> You have to ask yourself WHY he came to D in the first place. He is not 
> coming from a Java or C# background. While he has looked into GC 
> languages like Go, he is also comftable with non-GC langauges as well 
> Rust, Go, Zig, Jai, etc.
> 
> Point is - he returned to Dlang becauase D provides OPTIONS to the 
> programmer. D works for programmers like Tsoding who comes from that 
> C\C++ branch.

How I would describe D is it scales.

If you wanna run D on a dreamcast, good for you!

If you wanna write some basic utility program great!

Where D is failing to meet the full scale is places where D must improve.