D programming language

“D has a nice feature where a function can be annotated with `pure`, and the compiler will check that the function is pure.”

“I like how easy it is to switch between low-level and high-level code, and it has some neat features for modeling data.”

“D is mostly a collection of many ideas, many of them are good, but they don't coalesce into a simple design philosophy”

“It has a type system that catches most category errors, without having to think too much about types”

“templates don't play well with proper IDE support because it's hard to reason about the code”

“D to me is one language I love fundamentally, but the ecosystem is nowhere near where it could be.”

“D has become a complicated kitchen-sink language where each concept seems to be implemented in three different ways”

“It has a big advantage over the Pascal approach in that you can do zero-copy slicing, since the length is separate from the actual data.”

“D got it right by not supporting any macro, and become very fast in compilation while being consistent in the syntax”

“D language pioneered this combination both GC (by default) and non-GC more seamlessly, even before Stanza.”

“Strings (and arrays) being length/ptr is a freaking enormous win, in simplicity, performance, and overflow bug elimination.”

“It's a very consistent language even if you compared to the other popular languages namely Python, Rust, C++ and Go.”

“I was pleasantly surprised to discover, however, that C code can be readily translated to D.”

“Why settle for sub-optimal scripting languages if you can have the real deal with much better performance and freely available open source?”

“With all your tools you're never going to reach the same level of interactive productivity with D”

“In D you can have the high performance tool capable of bit shifting, string processing, array manipulation”

“rewrite the entire things in much more stable with fast development and compiled modern language eco-system like D language”

“D has lost 16 years counting from Andrei's book publishing date, letting other programing languages catch up to more relevant features.”

“Build faster, in typical programs you would need about 20 packages not 100, COM objects, easy meta-programming, 3 compilers.”

“was for several releases delayed due to personal issues, which is understandable in a small team, however it is a problem.”

“its that D has no direction. Its kitchen sink of features and the optionality just fragments the ecosystem”

“the GC combined with the full power of a systems language are the killer features that made me stick to D”

“It is trying to be too many things to too many people, and as a consequence it doesn't really stand out”

“In D, you just import the C headers directly without depending on the bindings' maintainers.”

“For one in D it's the same language and one can choose whether to execute compile time constant parts at compile time”

“it contains more updates than, say, the latest release of Dart, which has one of the largest corporations behind it”

“D prints the instantiation stack with exact locations in the code and the whole message is just more concise”

“the whole ecosystem was just too confusing and simply didn't look stable and reliable enough to build upon long-term”

“There's just too many problems with this language and how it's packaged and offered to the end user”

“it's almost a no-brainer to port C/C++ code to D because it mostly builds on the same semantics”

“D has compile time reflection, and compile time metaprogramming is much easier to use than Rust macros”

“D is a useful, well designed programming language that many thousands of people in this vast world enjoy using”

“lack of direction (it is always trying the next big thing that might atract users, leaving others behind not fully done)”

“After using a mixed D/C program for a while, I bet you'll feel motivated to take the extra step and translate the C stuff to D”

“I would certainly not suggest GP adopt it too eagerly, simply because it happens to check off most or all their technological requirements.”

“The way Dlang does it is nice because you can do a lot of stuff with them at compile time.”

“I would say D lacks a "bombastic" feature and maybe that's both the reason is not used more but also why is such a good language.”

“The author should try D language where it's the Goldilocks of complexity and meta programming”

“Languages such as D and Nim (both greatly underappreciated) offer full-language compile-time interpretation.”

“I like D better. And had some of the "cool" features of Zig from quite some time, such as scope(exit) which is clearer.”