On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 20:53:46 UTC, Dan Partelly
wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 19:13:15 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
Although I don't know D very well yet, it sounds like Russel
hits the nail precisely on the head here. FWICT, folks have
lately used scripting languages (ex. Python, Perl, Ruby) for
larger and larger programs (and even JS+Node for local apps),
Resulting in terrible software. Take text editors written in
JS+Electron. Slow bloated crap. {snip}
Maybe I wasn't being very clear there. Also, my unedited comment
on that was:
Although I don't know D very well yet, it sounds like Russel
hits the nail precisely on the head here. FWICT, folks have
lately used scripting languages (ex. Python, Perl, Ruby) for
larger and larger programs (and even JS+Node for local apps),
but it seems to me like the pendulum is swinging back the other
way as everyone wants optional types and also JIT
implementations like [PyPy](http://pypy.org/).
with my point being that I think we're seeing many scripting
language users now wanting the features that D already has
(types, type inference, high performance and less resource usage
(natively compiled)). I think it's a good time for D to attract
those users.
