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I'm currently learning D. I'm coming from JS framework saturation looking for a performant and powerful breath of fresh air. Did C++ back in the day and love the language, but not the language surface, especially now than I'm a solo dev.
So I set my claws onto D.
I like to read D code in the wild to get familiar with production-level code, but I stumbled across a repo compared languages and stated D really sucks for Web, which is my main use-case as I envisioned D fit a nice spot between C++ power and Erlang concurrency with ease of coding, through Vibe.d. (I may be wrong. Again, I'm still just a learner.)
This is the repo in question: https://github.com/phillvancejr/Cpp-Go-Zig-Odin?tab=readme-ov-file
It's kind of old, so I'm hopeful it no longer holds true, if that. But I find it hard to find the current state-of-things, so I ask here. Yes, I know it focuses on WASM, but I don't know if this annoyance translates to other web-related uses since many of the projects I found on GH are a few years old, as I don't want to feel limited to "do this, not that".
Here is the quote from the repo:
>D could arguably be #2 either tied with or displacing C++ if we're just talking about Desktop without web support. D's dstep tool and importc language feature make interop with C pretty easy. It has componet wise array operations similar to Odin which is nice. For me the big problem with D is that its wasm support is terrible. You can really only use it with betterC which is D's limited mode that restricts it to an enhanced C subset. When I was asking questions about using D's betterC with wasm one discord user kept refering to it as worse D, which might sound negative but is 100% accurate. Many of the things that make D good don't work in better C. Overall using D on desktop is great, but its terrible for the web and wasm.
Thanks and kudos for making such an elegant language.
