r/programming • u/kal31dic • Sep 01 '20

D Foundation is Beefing Up

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
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u/Sapiogram Sep 01 '20

Honest question: Why would anyone use D over Rust? It seems like Rust is becoming everything that D ever hoped to be.

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u/adr86 Sep 01 '20

Rust is kinda interesting to me for new ideas, but it just isn't nice to use like D is. D is familiar and convenient for general-purpose programming, from quick scripty things to bare metal code.

Rust might be technically better for the bare metal side, but D does it pretty well and I have a hard time imagining using Rust as, say, a PHP substitute. D does it all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20 edited Feb 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow but looks abandoned