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Yes - that's right : people mostly shouldn't need to hold such high Bitcoin balances to buy things. What's in the way is the state interfering so you can't change dollars for Bitco…

Money has three functions : unit of account, store if value, medium of exchange. Cryptocurrency isn't great at the first two, but if we presume the scaling problems will be solved …

It's a big world out there. Would you ever imagine that D would be taking market share from... Extended Pascal? But there's a naval architect who designs great big ships with a 500…

Plus betterC and gpu target.

Garbage in, garbage out. Github's language detection isn't perfect, and people in the D community simply aren't particularly focused on marketing and popularity contests. See here …

Or indeed https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/excel-d which schweiguy may find more appealing :)

Auburn sounds makes audio plugins in D and share how they avoid using GC in blog posts. Not that bad even for audio. Sociomantic and Weka both do soft real time.

Thanks for sharing. Friend of mine started a company called Resolver Systems to do that for Python (end result). Nice experiment but bad timing for launch just before the crisis. H…

See bachmeier work on D to R integration.

On Windows it's fine, but same library packaging problems as for C++...

Ios kind of works but is lacking bitcode on mobile devices. Lacking a bit wrapping of system and gui calls but for android see dlangui and Jni is not so bad. It's very practical to…

See Sociomantic 's Ocean library. But you don't need to go that far in practice in most uses. If you keep GC heap small, disable the GC in critical code paths, have threads that th…

It's much easier to generate code adapted to that cpu and machine in D because of compile time features. Plus it was an excellent team of a few people working for a few years that …

Weka use D for making systems that store Petabytes of data in production. They don't really like the GC kicking in on that situation. So they write the first draft of code using th…

What kind of support problems did you have? I found the opposite. It was possible to get such a good level of programmer from the community I was better off having found them letti…

Hi... You have a superb blog. Somebody right now on forum is trying to port your hash map code BTW. Yes past is a shame, though it's momentum relative to itself that matters for a …

There are many languages that fit certain general descriptions, but that doesn't mean that the experience of using them will lead me to think they are at all comparable in terms of…

You can write D without using the garbage collector, or more pragmatically disable it or have threads doing work that are not registered with the GC. Some standard library function…

Quite right, though the high water mark approach predates 2008.

I learnt from Popper that the facts are theory - laden and from Feynman that science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. This whole attempt to control the discourse is doome…

There's a link between the process that elsewhere he mentions people need to go through to adapt there - developing a tougher skin is part of it, and that relates to learning to re…

My background is from the hedge fund investment side (though I have been programming since 1983 and have been increasingly involved in tech the past few years) and I have found the…

Yes, well the little guy always wants to unseat the dominant player, and when there is some personal history involved, things get more mixed up (technical, emotional, manner of exp…

Note that I replied to a different version of the parent comment. Thanks for updating. Personally I started using zeromq, but was a bit disturbed by the experience of the saltstack…

Reasonable doubt is a legal term, not a scientific one.