I just found out about D recently and I have a few questions.

1- Where can I get the latest version of a decent IDE for D?
2- How fast is D compared to the other languages around (although I'm no speed
freak, I'm just curious)?
3- How fast is developing for D?

For someone who has programmed with C and C++ before, the learning curve should be fairly small right?

Thanks =)

In article <coin59$2let$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sion says...
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>I just found out about D recently and I have a few questions.
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>1- Where can I get the latest version of a decent IDE for D?

There really isn't one, though there is syntax hilighting for quite a few editors.  See http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?FrontPage

>2- How fast is D compared to the other languages around (although I'm no speed freak, I'm just curious)?

D is (or can be) as fast as C/C++.  There are a few spots that could use tuning, but this is lower priority than compiler bugfixes and the like.

>3- How fast is developing for D?

As an experienced C++ programmer, I find that I can code a bit faster in D than in C++.  The syntax is cleaner and less prone to programmer error (IMO).

>For someone who has programmed with C and C++ before, the learning curve should be fairly small right?

Yes.


Sean

In article <coin59$2let$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sion says...
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>I just found out about D recently and I have a few questions.
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>1- Where can I get the latest version of a decent IDE for D?

Don't yet use one for D, sorry.

>2- How fast is D compared to the other languages around (although I'm no speed freak, I'm just curious)?

Pretty much anything you can do with C/C++ with regards to memory management and such you can do with D. There are some parts of the language that present better opportunites to the compiler (like foreach, import, first-class arrays, built-in strings and associative arrays, etc.).

D might well end up faster for many things after several months (as opposed to
several years for C++) of compiler development ;)

>3- How fast is developing for D?
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>For someone who has programmed with C and C++ before, the learning curve should be fairly small right?

My background sounds similiar, and I started with D in August. I use C++ as neccessary for work but think I'm more comfortable with D right now than C++ - often when I need to prototype something I'll do that in D and then it's "..ok, done with that - back to the grind".

The DMD compiler is generally very fast and easy to use.

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>Thanks =)
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"Sean Kelly" <sean@f4.ca> wrote in message news:coio6l$2mse$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <coin59$2let$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sion says...
> >2- How fast is D compared to the other languages around (although I'm no
speed
> >freak, I'm just curious)?
>
> D is (or can be) as fast as C/C++.  There are a few spots that could use
tuning,
> but this is lower priority than compiler bugfixes and the like.

D can actually be considerably faster. See www.digitalmars.com/d/cppstrings.html