This is just a very short post about this language I recently discovered : the D language. As described on its little website : “D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. Special attention is given to the needs of quality assurance, documentation, management, portability and reliability.”.
It has most of the features of the java and the C# (best language ever), but it is fully compiled (no JVM or JIT stuff).
You should have a quick loot of its features on the Digital mars website (they’re the ones who created it).
I wonder if this language really has a future. C# (with the .Net framework) compiles and runs on every platform (thanks to mono), even on the iPhone, so it only remove the burden of the libraries required to run .net apps.
So, will it really beats its performance ? Because in C# is very fast (my next post will bring a stupid C++/C# performance comparison), and in C# avoiding time or memory consuming mistakes or multi-threading our code is very easy.