D-etractions A real world programmers view on D

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 25 August 2012 at 19:39:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/25/2012 6:03 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> Okay, so bitfields are rarely used, but many templates involve 
>> some use of CTFE,
>> and templates are very common in D code. It's good that D's 
>> parser is fairly
>> simple to implement (compared to C++ anyway), but to do 
>> automated refactoring
>> you need simple semantic analysis, and this is something that 
>> D does not have.
>
> How many IDEs can handle the C preprocessor, with token pasting 
> and all, when refactoring?

Straw man - I didn't suggest that the C preprocessor was any 
better. C++ is similarly criticised for its poor IDE support 
(when compared with C# and Java) due to the pre-processor and 
templates. If you haven't seen the level of support that (for 
example) Visual Studio provides for C# then I recommend checking 
it out. I imagine the situation with Java and Eclipse is similar, 
but I don't have any experience there.