On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 01:04:42PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > Although frankly, I have to admit, this whole "Fast code, fast" thing > is complete and utter rubbish compared to the "Better C++" that we've > now decided to be politically incorrect (very ironically, despite > active promotion of "betterC").
That fast-fast-fast slogan makes me cringe every time I see it. I try not to look at it every time I go to dlang.org, lest I throw up. If it weren't for the fact that D is actually technically superior to many other alternatives, I might have left D on that account alone; it's *that* bad. It surely can't have escaped the more observant among us the irony that the flagship D compiler, dmd, is the antithesis of that slogan as far as codegen quality is concerned. Thankfully, ldc/gdc comes to the rescue on the codegen front, otherwise this slogan would bear far more resemblance to fast food than I find palatable -- fast food fast, who cares if it's unhealthy and fattening AKA compile code fast, who cares if it produces slow executables. But since the PTBs have decreed it, and I really don't care enough about marketing to want to push for a change, I just shut one eye and carry on with the more important things in life. *shrug* T -- Without outlines, life would be pointless.
