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D also supports POSIX positional arguments: https://dlang.org/library/std/format/formatted_write.html

Thanks! I tried that too, but it's slower than Lomuto. Forgot to mention in the article.

This. Thanks!

(Author here.) That is incorrect. The difficult case is and the real benchmark is with unpredictable data. The low-entropy cases will be about as fast with both partitioning scheme…

Would love a sequel!

Speaker here. Slides at https://erdani.com/dconf2017-slides.pdf . Ask me anything! Abstract: Over the years, a few programming paradigms have been successful enough to enter the ca…

Affirmative.

I want to work on something where I can make a difference, and I think this is it. Paul Graham wrote (paraphrased from http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html ) one should a…

Probably not; D is not a particularly suited language for being a backend target. To be fair, neither is Javascript; it got in that position by accident. That said, just as a relat…

The income :o). Well, just kidding. I think the best thing about Facebook is its people. They are really really good, and that's felt at all levels.

I think the lack of demand for it has been an indicator that ranges with additions are just enough. We're currently looking at adding optional primitives to ranges in a Design by I…

Multzam!

This is good food for thought. Yes, working through a niche has been a good "in" for some languages.

1. I got std.experimental.allocator accepted for inclusion. On its basis it's not difficult to build the structures and algorithms necessary for garbage collection. However, there …

D would be definitely helped by a large corporate sponsor. I think the foundation will make the language a more serious alternative for such adoption. Competition is good for all i…

I have quite a few things in mind for the immediate future. Organizationally, I want to get the D Language Foundation rolling as an organizational mothership of the language. Techn…

This is he. AMA!

My debugging experience with Code:Blocks on Linux has been spectacular.