On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 01:57 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: […] > I'd like to add that D has: > > - operator overloading > - user defined attributes > - dll's (coming soon) > - vector operations > - SIMD operations > - scope guard > - compile time function execution > - true immutability and purity > - inline assembler […]
On the other hand "creeping featurism" can be a bad thing. Isn't the mantra "small language, large (properly indexed) library"? Immutability though I like. Single assignment rules. Inline assembler is anathema. > Andrei did some tests a while back showing that D compiles considerably > faster > than Go. High compilation speed has been a major factor among companies who > have > adopted D. Excellent. Java / Scala is an interesting battle: Java is massively verbose, Scala is not; Java takes a while to compile, Scala takes eons. Hence static Groovy (as well as dynamic), and Kotlin. The jury is still out on whether Ceylon has any relevance to the universe. PS Can I have shared objects last week please ;-) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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