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My point is that Dlang scales from beginner to expert, from scripting to highly concurrent low-latency applications. Why settle for sub-optimal scripting languages if you can have the real deal with much better performance and freely available open source?

In the automative world if you can afford it, you need daily drive car for the job and supermarket runs, weekend supercar for fun/showing off, and off-road 4x4 vehicles for overnight camping. But in the software world D can cater for mostly everything with free open-source compilers, minimum productivity overhead and much cheaper to host as well [1].

Funny you mentioned BLAS, since Dlang BLAS implementation has also surpassed the run-of-the-mill high performance BLAS library that these scripting languages can only dream of (Matlab calling the 3rd party Fortran codes no less) [2].

[1] Saving Money by Switching from PHP to D:

https://dlang.org/blog/2019/09/30/saving-money-by-switching-...

[2] Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen:

http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...

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