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The article only mentions a few of D's features. There are a lot more improvements. The templating system for instance is quite innovative. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/templates-revisited.html Variadic Templestes: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/variadic-function-templates.htm...

But there are other things as well like the lazy evaluation, and built in contract and unit test support.

Ave a look at the articles on this page http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

And the specifications http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html

You may find this article about Java, Lisp, D interesting: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lisp-java-d.html

D is a very young language that is still under development, so this is the reason why you have not yet heard of very many "useful applications". It does have some innovative features, like unit test support built into the language among other things.

Their technology is cool and innovative, but the article suggests users are required to broadcast 24/7? Is that true? Wouldn't it be better to allow people to broadcast only when they think something interesting is going on?

Their technology is cool and innovative, but the article suggests users are required to broadcast 24/7? Is that true? Wouldn't it be better to allow people to broadcast only when they think something interesting is going on?

Some things that are technical possible and even cool are still "evil". I realize someone is probably going to do them any way, but it's sure as hell not going to be me.

This thing would be a great bomb trigger too by the way.