On 4/6/2015 4:51 PM, Adam Hawkins wrote:
Hello everyone, this is my first post on the forum. I've been investigating the
language for the past few weeks. I was able to complete my first useful program
thanks to very helpful people in #d on IRC . The experience made me very
interested in the language and improving the community around it.
I'm primarily Ruby developer (been so about the last 7-8 years) doing web stuff
with significant JavaScript work as well. I wrote a blog post on why I'm excited
about D. You can read it here: http://hawkins.io/2015/04/excited-about-d/.
I've been reading the forums here so I can see that there is a focus on
improving the marketing for the language and growing the community. I see most
of the effort is geared towards C++ programmers, but have you considered looking
at us dynamic languages folk? I see a big upside for us. Moving from Ruby to D
(my case) gives me power & performance. I still have OOP techniques but I still
have functional things like closures and all that good stuff. Only trade off in
the Ruby case is metaprogramming. All in all I think there is a significant
value promise for those of us doing backend services for folks like me.
Regardless, I figured it might be interesting to hear about some experience
coming to the language from a different perspective. Cheers!
This is a nice article, thanks!
I noticed a bug in one of the examples:
assert("Adam Hawkins" == myName());
should be:
assert("Adam Hawkins" == myName());
