D vs Python vs Swift

Pros of D

• 16

  Compile-time function execution
• 12

  Makes functional programming style easier
• 12

  Productive
• 12

  Much easier to do Concurrent/Parallel vs C/C++
• 11

  Simple but Powerful template-based generics
• 11

  Powerful static function to avoid macro
• 10

  Meta program is much easier to read/write vs. C++
• 9

  It support unittest etc
• 9

  Assembler is support directly in the language
• 9

  System program language like C++ and C
• 9

  Supports code covarge directly in the compiler
• 7

  Metaprogramming
• 7

  Supports both manuel memory and garbage collection
• 6

  Plugs directly into C
• 6

  Easy to translate from Java and C# to D
• 5

  Feels and looks like C, so it's easy to learn
• 4

  Amazing developer productivity
• 2

  Fast
• 2

  Performance
• 1

  Syntax uniformity across pre-compile/compile/runtime

Pros of Python

• 1.2K

  Great libraries
• 964

  Readable code
• 847

  Beautiful code
• 788

  Rapid development
• 691

  Large community
• 438

  Open source
• 393

  Elegant
• 282

  Great community
• 273

  Object oriented
• 221

  Dynamic typing
• 77

  Great standard library
• 60

  Very fast
• 55

  Functional programming
• 51

  Easy to learn
• 46

  Scientific computing
• 35

  Great documentation
• 29

  Productivity
• 28

  Easy to read
• 28

  Matlab alternative
• 24

  Simple is better than complex
• 20

  It's the way I think
• 19

  Imperative
• 18

  Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
• 18

  Free
• 17

  Powerfull language
• 17

  Machine learning support
• 16

  Fast and simple
• 14

  Scripting
• 12

  Explicit is better than implicit
• 11

  Ease of development
• 10

  Clear and easy and powerfull
• 9

  Unlimited power
• 8

  Import antigravity
• 8

  It's lean and fun to code
• 7

  Print "life is short, use python"
• 7

  Python has great libraries for data processing
• 6

  Rapid Prototyping
• 6

  Readability counts
• 6

  Now is better than never
• 6

  Great for tooling
• 6

  Flat is better than nested
• 6

  Although practicality beats purity
• 6

  I love snakes
• 6

  High Documented language
• 6

  There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
• 6

  Fast coding and good for competitions
• 5

  Web scraping
• 5

  Lists, tuples, dictionaries
• 5

  Great for analytics
• 4

  Easy to setup and run smooth
• 4

  Easy to learn and use
• 4

  Plotting
• 4

  Beautiful is better than ugly
• 4

  Multiple Inheritence
• 4

  Socially engaged community
• 4

  Complex is better than complicated
• 4

  CG industry needs
• 4

  Simple and easy to learn
• 3

  It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
• 3

  Flexible and easy
• 3

  Many types of collections
• 3

  If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
• 3

  If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
• 3

  Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
• 3

  Pip install everything
• 3

  List comprehensions
• 3

  No cruft
• 3

  Generators
• 3

  Import this
• 3

  Powerful language for AI
• 2

  Can understand easily who are new to programming
• 2

  Should START with this but not STICK with This
• 2

  A-to-Z
• 2

  Because of Netflix
• 2

  Only one way to do it
• 2

  Better outcome
• 2

  Batteries included
• 2

  Good for hacking
• 2

  Securit
• 1

  Procedural programming
• 1

  Best friend for NLP
• 1

  Slow
• 1

  Automation friendly
• 1

  Sexy af
• 0

  Ni
• 0

  Keep it simple
• 0

  Powerful

Pros of Swift

• 259

  Ios
• 180

  Elegant
• 126

  Not Objective-C
• 107

  Backed by apple
• 93

  Type inference
• 61

  Generics
• 54

  Playgrounds
• 49

  Semicolon free
• 38

  OSX
• 36

  Tuples offer compound variables
• 24

  Clean Syntax
• 24

  Easy to learn
• 22

  Open Source
• 21

  Beautiful Code
• 20

  Functional
• 12

  Dynamic
• 12

  Linux
• 11

  Protocol-oriented programming
• 10

  Promotes safe, readable code
• 9

  No S-l-o-w JVM
• 8

  Explicit optionals
• 7

  Storyboard designer
• 6

  Optionals
• 6

  Type safety
• 5

  Super addicting language, great people, open, elegant
• 5

  Best UI concept
• 4

  Its friendly
• 4

  Highly Readable codes
• 4

  Fail-safe
• 4

  Powerful
• 4

  Faster and looks better
• 4

  Swift is faster than Objective-C
• 4

  Feels like a better C++
• 3

  Easy to learn and work
• 3

  Much more fun
• 3

  Protocol extensions
• 3

  Native
• 3

  Its fun and damn fast
• 3

  Strong Type safety
• 3

  Easy to Maintain
• 2

  Protocol as type
• 2

  All Cons C# and Java Swift Already has
• 2

  Esay
• 2

  MacOS
• 2

  Type Safe
• 2

  Protocol oriented programming
• 1

  Can interface with C easily
• 1

  Actually don't have to own a mac
• 1

  Free from Memory Leak
• 1

  Swift is easier to understand for non-iOS developers.
• 1

  Numbers with underbar
• 1

  Optional chain
• 1

  Great for Multi-Threaded Programming
• 1

  Runs Python 8 times faster
• 1

  Objec

Cons of D

Cons of Python

• 53

  Still divided between python 2 and python 3
• 28

  Performance impact
• 26

  Poor syntax for anonymous functions
• 22

  GIL
• 19

  Package management is a mess
• 14

  Too imperative-oriented
• 12

  Hard to understand
• 12

  Dynamic typing
• 12

  Very slow
• 8

  Indentations matter a lot
• 8

  Not everything is expression
• 7

  Incredibly slow
• 7

  Explicit self parameter in methods
• 6

  Requires C functions for dynamic modules
• 6

  Poor DSL capabilities
• 6

  No anonymous functions
• 5

  Fake object-oriented programming
• 5

  Threading
• 5

  The "lisp style" whitespaces
• 5

  Official documentation is unclear.
• 5

  Hard to obfuscate
• 5

  Circular import
• 4

  Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
• 4

  The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
• 4

  Not suitable for autocomplete
• 2

  Meta classes
• 1

  Training wheels (forced indentation)

Cons of Swift

• 6

  Must own a mac
• 2

  Memory leaks are not uncommon
• 1

  Very irritatingly picky about things that’s
• 1

  Complicated process for exporting modules
• 1

  Its classes compile to roughly 300 lines of assembly
• 1

  Is a lot more effort than lua to make simple functions
• 0

  Overly complex options makes it easy to create bad code