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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by trishume on Saturday June 15, 2019 @09:30PM (#20193268)
Fun fact the person you're replying to is the creator of D, I'm pretty sure he likes it. I've personally played around with D a bit and written maybe 1kloc in it and I like it.

It doesn't have good pattern matching or the borrow checker, but it does have much better metaprogramming than Rust. I think a lot of the metaprogramming used in the Python project could also be done basically as easily in D, which is a big accomplishment.

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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by WalterBright on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:50AM (#20194039)
D has many characteristics of lifetime checking in that it can track lifetimes across function calls and issue errors for incorrect usage. I've been looking into increasing its reach, and it looks promising.
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