Comment by jhack

Comment by jhack 7 hours ago

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D gets no respect. It's a solid language with a lot of great features and conveniences compared to C++ but it barely gets a passing mention (if that) when language discussions pop up. I'd argue a lot of the problems people have with C++ are addressed with D but they have no idea.

rsyring 5 hours ago

Could say the same for Nim.

But popularity/awareness/ecosystem matter.

  • elcritch 12 minutes ago

    That's the great thing about LLMs.

    Especially with Nim it's so easy to make quality libraries with a Codex/ClaudeCode and a couple hours as a hobby.

    Especially when they run fast. I just made Metal bindings and got 120 FPS demos with SDF bitmaps running yesterday while eating Saturday brunch.

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Ygg2 5 hours ago

If the difference in performance between the target language and C++ is huge, it's probably not the language that's great, but some quirk of implementation.