On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
For personal projects, from low-level system hacking (like implementing own reference counted struct) to high-level web apps.
just to learn something new? (I would easily argue that learning D will make you a better C++ programmer, maybe not the most efficient way, but I a sure it i very effective)
Yup, with D I learned a lot of new programming techniques, like meta-programming, CTFE, Range-based algorithms etc. I really enjoy how quickly I can switch between low- and high-level code without changing the language. I think this is the main reason why I stayed with D, not with Go/Rust. They're good programming languages, but they force you to code in the way they call "idiomatic", not in the way you want to. D is a great language, because with all flexibility it has, D community haven't been splitted like in C++.
What is you D setup at work, which compiler, which IDE?
Latest DMD, Emacs and DUB. I also have LDC and GDC installed for testing. DMD compiles stuff faster than other compilers and has all latest things I need.
And any other fun facts you may want to share :)
It's a feature (c) Walter Bright, everytime somebody asks about bugs in D
