On Friday, 11 July 2014 at 17:41:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Mind you, D is a hindsight language, which makes it wiser.
Does it
have flaws? Yes. I come across them sometimes. Is there a
language
without flaws? If there is, tell me about it.
When I was still using C/C++ for my personal projects, the
problems I
keep running into drove me to dream about what I'd like in an
ideal
language. I tried writing my own, but didn't get very far -- not
everyone is a Walter Bright, after all. ;-) So I searched
online instead
-- and found that D is the one language that's closest to my
idea of
what an ideal language should be. There are some things about
it that
aren't quite up to my ideals, but there are also many other
areas where
it *exceeded* my ideals. So in spite of whatever warts or
wrinkles D may
have, it's still the best language out there IMO.
I went down a similar path. Always frustrated with existing
languages. Then I accidentally discovered D and I knew that was
it! It killed so many birds with one stone. Unicode,
C-interfaceable (if that's a word), native compilation to begin
with, then I discovered all the nice features and I've become a
better programmer simply by trying to understand D. It gives me
more freedom to put human thought into a computer, to model our
world in terms a computer can understand, and not the other way
around.
I still don't get why people who put up with other languages like
Java and C++, and patiently wait years for simple improvements,
say, when they see D, "it doesn't have xyz*, it's shit!" I just
don't get it.
*(usually GC or thread related)
