The D Programming Language

Posted by michael on Wednesday August 15, 2001 @11:57PM from the whiter-whites-and-brighter-colors dept.

dereferenced writes: "Walter Bright, author of the original Zortech C++ Compiler and the free (as in beer) Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler, has posted a draft specification for a new programming language that he describes as "a successor to C and C++". It seems to me that most of the "new" programming languages fall into one of two categories: Those from academia with radical new paradigms and those from large corporations with a focus on RAD and the web. Maybe its time for a new language born out of practical experience implementing compilers."

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Re:Convince me by andrewscraig · 2001-08-16 00:16 · Score: 0, Troll

Because it is slow...take a simple Hello World app - java takes 2 seconds just to start up, whereas C starts immediately - winner == C.
Ok - so the VM overhead accounts for that. So how about GUI apps - hmmm - which would win there? I've yet to see a Java GUI run as fast as C -- therefore the winnder is C again. (Anyone like to come up with a like-for-like example of where a C GUI is slower than the equivelant Java one)?
Next let's compare File I/O - load a 10 MB file in both....last time I did this the Java app took several seconds, whereas the C version performed