• Antonio Corbi (9/9) Apr 17 2016 Hello,
• Chris (10/19) Apr 20 2016 From the blog post:

Antonio Corbi <acorbi ggmail.xml> writes:

Hello,

Just read this post from Matthias Klumpp 
(http://blog.tenstral.net/2016/04/introducing-appstream-generator.html) in
planet.debian.net where he talks about replacing the current appstream metadata
generator written in python (dep11-generator).

He talks about considering Go, Rust and D for this task, and why 
He finally chose D. It's very short and very enlightening, worth 
a reading!

Hope you like it!
Sorry if this has been posted before.

Antonio

Chris <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:

On Sunday, 17 April 2016 at 11:10:29 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
 Hello,

 Just read this post from Matthias Klumpp 
 (http://blog.tenstral.net/2016/04/introducing-appstream-generator.html) in
planet.debian.net where he talks about replacing the current appstream metadata
generator written in python (dep11-generator).

 He talks about considering Go, Rust and D for this task, and 
 why He finally chose D. It's very short and very enlightening, 
 worth a reading!

 Hope you like it!
 Sorry if this has been posted before.

 Antonio

 From the blog post:
"And while I never intended to write the new generator in D (I 
was pretty fixated on Go…), this is what happened. The strong 
points for D for this particular project were its close relation 
to C (and ease of using existing C code), its super-flat learning 
curve for someone who knows and likes C and C++ and its pretty 
powerful implementations of the concurrent and parallel 
programming paradigms."

That's pretty cool - and interesting.