Teaching Software Engineering in DLang [pdf]

D is a interesting language, its in the middle between a low-level language and a high-level language. You can quickly script with it but you can also produce complex and fast applications.

Its in a weird spot but its faschinating worth exploring it.

It's a flexible language, if you're coming from C / C++, you might like the -BetterC flag.

Does D still have any potential, considering that Rust, Zig, and Vale have occupied a lot of the mindspace for modern systems programming languages?

Is D better than C++ for many things, including teaching? Definitely. It is a nice language that produces fast programs and is nice to read. It's also very good as a scripting language that can be compiled on demand with rdmd.

But I have to admit that I have been spoiled by Rust. D still blows Rust out of the water when you just want to write a "script" do to some small standalone task very efficiently (with rdmd), but for writing more complex programs Rust's type system feels much nicer.

Thought that said "Da Nang" at first, and thought it was making an Apocalypse Now reference regarding Software Engineering.

Like

"When I'm coding, I want to stop, when I stop, all I can think about is coding".

"When I went home, I just stared at the wall thinking of code, I didn't say anything until I said yes to a divorce".