On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 00:24:36 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:17:23 +0000, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
It is a pity that D is not pitching as a Python replacement.
D can't: it doesn't dumb enough to attract people that requires
compiler
enforcements on whitespace to correctly format their code.
Urr.... As an active Python developer, I find that one pretty
harsh. It's not that we need to enforce good style, it's that we
take good style as granted and choose to lighten it consequently.
On the contrary I think that D has everything to attract a
pythonista. Most new, trendy languages like Go or Rust are to
down a level to easily suit a python's formated mind, and I guess
that if most python developers come to switch language for
performance issues (like myself) D's code safety system is
definitely very appealing because python's safety is... well...
^^"
Moreover, it is possible to reach a good expressiveness (maybe
not as good as python, but that's the whole goal of python so
there's no shame in not matching it).
UFCS FTW!
