Sean Kelly wrote:
Travis Boucher Wrote:
The fast, highly optimized web code is a very niche market.
I'm not sure it will remain this way for long. Look at social networking sites, where
people spend a great deal of their time in what are essentially user-created apps. Make
them half as efficient and the "cloud" will need twice the resources to run
them.
I hope it doesn't remain this way. Personally I am sick of fixing
broken PHP code, retarded ruby code, and bad SQL queries. However, the
issue isn't the language as much as it is the coders.
Easy powerful languages = stupid coders who do stupid things.
D is an easy, powerful language, but has one aspect which may protect it
against stupid coders. Its hard to do stupid things in D. Its harder
to create a memory leak in D then it is to prevent one in C.
Hell, I've seen ruby do things which personally I thought was a memory
leak at first, to later realize it was just a poor GC implementation.
(this is mats ruby, not jruby or rubinius).
I know stupid coders will always exist, but D promotes good practice
without sacrificing performance.
