I’ve never used D but this really makes me want to give it a shot. Did anyone try it, and would you recommend using it?

  • Lil' Bobby Tables@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    D is an incredibly fun language with a reasonable syntax and considerable support for a wide variety of programming paradigms (procedural, object oriented, functional…), while maintaining binary interface compatibility with C and C++. That makes it extremely versatile.

    It is the perfect pet language. The only reason it was never more widely adopted is the quizzical early decision by its makers (Mars) to keep the reference compiler closed source. There an open source compiler too, and it’s good, but it’s effectively black boxing. So, pet language is where the buck stopped, for better or worse.