D Language Foundation Quarterly Meeting, October 2021

[Atila Neves]

On Saturday, 6 November 2021 at 15:46:57 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Friday, 5 November 2021 at 13:19:24 UTC, zjh wrote:
>> D can aim at `experts`, especially `meta programming users`.
>> On this point,`rust` can't compete.
>> `Silky general meta programming`.
>> Use my `strengths` to attack theirs weaknesses.
>>
>
> This is much less of a strength than you think. For 90% of 
> cases, lack of metaprogramming is resolved by putting a Python 
> script in build step that autogenerates the necessary code.

Python has no idea about D syntax or semantics (or any other 
language not called Python), and therefore can't even do 
something as simple as "what are all the D structs in module x". 
You'd have to invent a templating language on top of the code 
you're already writing, then write some Python code to parse and 
generate on top of *that*.

To me, that's like saying that C/Fortran aren't that big of a 
deal compared to assembly. Who needs for loops, amirite?