D-etractions A real world programmers view on D

[SomeDude]

On Saturday, 25 August 2012 at 23:02:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> Of course, D also has other things besides reflection that can 
> mess with
> refactorings, like mixins+ctfe, but hey, anyone can still stick 
> a
> code-generator in front of a call to "javac", and you've got 
> the same
> problem (only clunkier to use and even *less* likely to be
> refactorable).

Code generation is evil. I now avoid almost all the frameworks 
based on code generation, it almost always generates crap.