On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:33:30 -0700, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
Exactly. Much of that can be summed up as D being intended for
professional
production use, rather than:
Anyway you can't ignore D's productivity. As a newcomer after one
week learning and toying with D my productivity is about 70% of the
one I have with Python after 8 years doing Python, and higher than
the one I've with Java or C++.
I've found that the compiler error messages are usually very
informative, which helps, but being able to link with C libs is a
boost too, compared to Python or Java where you need to write lot
more than declarations.
Yesterday I translated some Python code (Quixote's scgi.py) to D in a
couple hours and now it runs like five times faster (before any
optimization or D-ization) using 10% of the.memory. The translation
was almost direct, line by line which speaks a lot about D's
expresivity (I only missed something like list.remove(item)).
