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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Is D the answer?

What's D?

D is a general purpose systems and applications programming language. It is a higher level language than C++, but retains the ability to write high performance code and interface directly with the operating system API's and with hardware. D is well suited to writing medium to large scale million line programs with teams of developers. D is easy to learn, provides many capabilities to aid the programmer, and is well suited to aggressive compiler optimization technology.

D is not a scripting language, nor an interpreted language. It doesn't come with a VM, a religion, or an overriding philosophy. It's a practical language for practical programmers who need to get the job done quickly, reliably, and leave behind maintainable, easy to understand code.

D is the culmination of decades of experience implementing compilers for many diverse languages, and attempting to construct large projects using those languages. D draws inspiration from those other languages (most especially C++) and tempers it with experience and real world practicality.



Is D fun? Yes. Is D aligned with my vision of a compiled languages enriched with some of the dynamic languages artifacts? Definitely yes! Is D the answer to my problems? Nope, in me case, I'll still put my hope on C#. Will D be the language of choice for OS developers? Hard to predict, but probably not.

Still a nice language...

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