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jhacktoday at 12:35 AM3 repliesview on HN

D gets no respect. It's a solid language with a lot of great features and conveniences compared to C++ but it barely gets a passing mention (if that) when language discussions pop up. I'd argue a lot of the problems people have with C++ are addressed with D but they have no idea.


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rsyringtoday at 2:32 AM

Could say the same for Nim.

But popularity/awareness/ecosystem matter.

Ygg2today at 2:39 AM

If the difference in performance between the target language and C++ is huge, it's probably not the language that's great, but some quirk of implementation.