On Monday, 11 July 2022 at 22:16:05 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
I use D because DMD compiles my huge project in ~1 second (full
clean rebuild)
It is a competitive advantage that many languages doesn't have
The other programming languages typically use an interpreter for
quick iterations and rapid development. For example, Python
programming language has CPython interpreter, PyPy Just-in-Time
compiler and Cython optimizing static compiler (not perfect right
now, but shows a lot of promise).
D still has a certain advantage over interpreters, because DMD
generated code is typically only up to twice slower than LDC
generated code. If the x86 architecture stops being dominant in
the future and gets displaced by ARM or RISC-V, then this may
become a problem for DMD. But we'll cross that bridge when we get
there.
