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Well, others might have said `i, s:` is not an independent label.

We may first need to go over what "elegant" means I guess. :)

D is technically better than C++ in most features. (It has always lead C++. For example, among about 100 new feauters that C++11 brought, only 2 were not already in D. No C++ desig…

Exactly. It really was a happy accident. I talked about it here: https://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/29/programming-in-d-a-happy-a...

Mike Shah has been using D for teaching software engineering at Northeastern University and Yale. Here is his DLang playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvv0ScY6vfd9Fso…

All I need is another wave of motivation. I'm searching. :)

Author here... AMA.

Because Google saves us all.

It may not be a step function improvement but the difference is still night and day: Dreading one more line of C++ versus looking forward to many fun lines of D. I mean... Modules …

That historically backwards: C++ has been catching up to D since C++11.

I see what you mean but array of bytes is something else in D: byte[].

D's string is not text by itself because it is an array of UTF-8 code units. However, we have this infamous feature called auto-decoding in the standard library that presents strin…

> unit tests printed some weird error I am not aware of a common issue like that but D has bugs. > Also importC isn't what you think it is That's contrary to my tests: I installed …

No. We had a very long discussion about safe-by-default on the forums but failed to reach a consensus. As I understand it, for safe-by-default to work, either all C libraries would…

> memory usage and binary size Don't forget the -betterC compiler switch please. ;)

I heard Discord may have negative posts as well but I find the official D newsgroups (with a forum interface) very friendly and clean. Minimal moderation seems to help there.

> how is D different I don't know Zig yet. I had an opinion long time ago that nobody should use C anymore; I would suggest C++ at least because it has constructors and templates. …

It is definitely chewing on it. :) D's advantage over Rust is its familiar syntax and semantics. C, C++, Java, C#, Python, etc. programmers feel at home once they learn some differ…

AMA I am the speaker.

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html

Wonderful to see you here as well! :)

D is not popular but has a strong long-time following.

I don't know what code Walter is referring to but I had similar experiences during a presentation of the Boost Spirit library (at our Silicon Valley C++ Meeting; must be about a de…

D's templates has always been very strong and useful compared to C++'s. The following example is similar to C macros because it generates code as string and mixes it in as code but…

Thanks for letting me know. This seems to be far from being adopted into C++, if at all, right? Is the C++ community behind this effort?