• Sion (8/8) Nov 30 2004 I just found out about D recently and I have a few questions.
• Sean Kelly (9/16) Nov 30 2004 There really isn't one, though there is syntax hilighting for quite a fe...
• Walter (6/11) Nov 30 2004 speed
• Dave (13/21) Nov 30 2004 Pretty much anything you can do with C/C++ with regards to memory manage...

Sion <Sion_member pathlink.com> writes:

I just found out about D recently and I have a few questions.

1- Where can I get the latest version of a decent IDE for D?
2- How fast is D compared to the other languages around (although I'm no speed
freak, I'm just curious)?
3- How fast is developing for D?

For someone who has programmed with C and C++ before, the learning curve should
be fairly small right? 

Thanks =)

Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:

In article <coin59$2let$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Sion says...
I just found out about D recently and I have a few questions.

1- Where can I get the latest version of a decent IDE for D?

There really isn't one, though there is syntax hilighting for quite a few
editors.  See http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?FrontPage

2- How fast is D compared to the other languages around (although I'm no speed
freak, I'm just curious)?

D is (or can be) as fast as C/C++.  There are a few spots that could use tuning,
but this is lower priority than compiler bugfixes and the like.

3- How fast is developing for D?

As an experienced C++ programmer, I find that I can code a bit faster in D than
in C++.  The syntax is cleaner and less prone to programmer error (IMO).

For someone who has programmed with C and C++ before, the learning curve should
be fairly small right? 

Yes.


Sean

"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"Sean Kelly" <sean f4.ca> wrote in message
news:coio6l$2mse$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 In article <coin59$2let$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Sion says...
2- How fast is D compared to the other languages around (although I'm no


speed
freak, I'm just curious)?

 D is (or can be) as fast as C/C++.  There are a few spots that could use

tuning,
 but this is lower priority than compiler bugfixes and the like.

D can actually be considerably faster. See
www.digitalmars.com/d/cppstrings.html

Dave <Dave_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <coin59$2let$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Sion says...
I just found out about D recently and I have a few questions.

1- Where can I get the latest version of a decent IDE for D?

Don't yet use one for D, sorry.

2- How fast is D compared to the other languages around (although I'm no speed
freak, I'm just curious)?

Pretty much anything you can do with C/C++ with regards to memory management and
such you can do with D. There are some parts of the language that present better
opportunites to the compiler (like foreach, import, first-class arrays, built-in
strings and associative arrays, etc.).

D might well end up faster for many things after several months (as opposed to
several years for C++) of compiler development ;)

3- How fast is developing for D?

For someone who has programmed with C and C++ before, the learning curve should
be fairly small right? 

My background sounds similiar, and I started with D in August. I use C++ as
neccessary for work but think I'm more comfortable with D right now than C++ -
often when I need to prototype something I'll do that in D and then it's "..ok,
done with that - back to the grind".

The DMD compiler is generally very fast and easy to use.

Thanks =)