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Their wordsLet's see why the D programming language is worth a serious look.
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A programming language cannot satisfy everyone and must commit to a few fundamental principles.
Their wordsA language can't possibly fulfill everyone's needs and taste at the same time as many of them are contradictory, so it must carefully commit to a few fundamental coordinates that put it on the landscape of programming languages.
Their wordsIn the process, the language's complexity has increased, which is in fact a good indicator because no language in actual use has ever gotten smaller. Even languages that started with the stated intent to be "small and beautiful" inevitably grew with use.
Their wordsThis is no small news as Qt is a great (the best if you listen to the right people) library for developing portable GUI applications.
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