Why do you continue to use D? (page 2)

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 11:12:08 UTC, aberba wrote: > I personally can't use any other system programming language due to the expressiveness and familiarity of D. Its familiar and some syntactic expressiveness are just hard to get in other systems languages...feels easier to model code in D. > > I don't use D primarily for work (Node.Js due to packages and cloud support...web services), but D is my go-to system language. Personally, wished I could use D for everything. > > I like the community here better, I like the engagement and support. Yeah, it's not perfect but way better than anywhere else I've been. > > What are you? D is the least of the evils out there.

On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 17:59 +0000, Jan Hönig via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > (C++) or to the JVM (Kotlin). Go doesn't have the expressiveness and I haven't really tried Rust, but I suspect the same. As ever, what does "expressiveness" mean? For me D and Rust are in the same bucket in terms of what I deem "expressiveness" means with Go much less. […] > 5) I hope to get rid of Python -> C++ some day. I think there are many who would say that D is the static language that Python isn't. I suspect I am one of them. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 11:14:13 UTC, aberba wrote: > what about you? D's systems programming features let me access the full power of the computer and control it precisely. D's powerful meta-programming features allow me to actually use that power and control without having the project take forever, or turn out excessively buggy.

June 03, 2020

Re: Why do you continue to use D?

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On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 11:12:08 UTC, aberba wrote:
> I personally can't use any other system programming language due to the expressiveness and familiarity of D. Its familiar and some syntactic expressiveness are just hard to get in other systems languages...feels easier to model code in D.
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> I don't use D primarily for work (Node.Js due to packages and cloud support...web services), but D is my go-to system language. Personally, wished I could use D for everything.
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> I like the community here better, I like the engagement and support. Yeah, it's not perfect but way better than anywhere else I've been.
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> What are you?

Luckily I can use D at work. There are a lot spots where D fits nicely due to its C interoperability and due to the fact it is a compiled language. The project I work for is actually a cloud / big data project. Yes there is always s.th. missing in D ecosystem but either I can just use a C library or in worst case I solve it by calling another executable which provides the missing features.

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Andre

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 18:45:34 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: > Yes there is always s.th. missing in D... What is s.th. ? "Something"? I tried google without luck. My gosh guys please think about non-native English people while writing. Matheus.

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 18:50:08 UTC, matheus wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 18:45:34 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: >> Yes there is always s.th. missing in D... > > What is s.th. ? "Something"? > > I tried google without luck. > > My gosh guys please think about non-native English people while writing. > > Matheus. Non native speaker here;) I thought I learnt in secondary school That you abbreviate something with s.th. But you are right, I also do not find it in google. Grüße aus dem Schwabenland Andre

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 19:34:24 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 18:50:08 UTC, matheus wrote: >> On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 18:45:34 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: >>> Yes there is always s.th. missing in D... >> >> What is s.th. ? "Something"? >> >> I tried google without luck. >> >> My gosh guys please think about non-native English people while writing. >> >> Matheus. > > Non native speaker here;) > I thought I learnt in secondary school > That you abbreviate something with s.th. > But you are right, I also do not find it in google. > > Grüße aus dem Schwabenland > Andre Ironically, I've seen ESL speakers use this abbreviation far more frequently than native speakers.

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 20:31:09 UTC, Meta wrote: > [snip] > > Ironically, I've seen ESL speakers use this abbreviation far more frequently than native speakers. I've seen the abbreviation before, primarily from non-native speakers as well. Below is the first thing that came up when I googled for "s.th" https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/353395/meaning-of-s-th

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 20:48:30 UTC, jmh530 wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 20:31:09 UTC, Meta wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Ironically, I've seen ESL speakers use this abbreviation far more frequently than native speakers. > > I've seen the abbreviation before, primarily from non-native speakers as well. > > Below is the first thing that came up when I googled for "s.th" > > https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/353395/meaning-of-s-th Keep in mind that google shows different results according the country you live, like Andre Pany said before. Matheus.

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