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If it compiles, it must run without several entire classes of errors.

All this theoretical bottleneck debate, but it really boils down to this: If you're writing frequently-run code in Python/Ruby/JS, or any such highly-dynamic-at-runtime language, t…

Actionscript has basically no error checking. It'll check for syntax errors and that about it - every other error manifests as a strange bug or "why the F * is nothing happening!?!…

That's only a valid comparison if you're really big into polyglot programming AND believe that all languages are great in their own special way.

Figures this would get downvoted for not blindly buying into the propaganda: The syntax is clearly not C-style, that's just plainly-apparent. And just because a language is nativel…

"[Issue 9] is a C-like language...It is intended to be a systems programming language..." What? Google's Issue 9 is neither a C-like language nor a systems language.

I never cared one bit about grades my entire life (despite constant prodding by teachers and parents), and my grades ended up all over the place. Consequently, my GPA was pretty ba…

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I may be biased because D has been my favorite language for more than five years now, but, well, it's good enough to have been my favorite language for more than five years now.

That would have been written "The langauge I wish Go had been"

I got into D at least 5 years ago because I was a C/C++ user looking for something that has comparable power and, well, wasn't so horrible.

100Hz != 100MHz

Manual memory management is always possible in D, and if you really need to, the GC can be ripped out.

Yes, they have. It's called D: http://www.digitalmars.com/d It doesn't have an automatic translator, but it's design does follow a rule of "If a piece of C code is dropped into a D…