D vs C++11

[Mehrdad]

On Friday, 2 November 2012 at 21:53:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/2/2012 2:33 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> I said the gap is getting thinner, not that is gone. It got 
>> foreach, some form
>> of CTFE, static assert, lambda to mention a few new features.


> No ranges.

Boost.Range


> No purity.

Yeah :(


> No immutability.

Hmm const objects do it sorta-kinda... ok maybe not lol


> No modules.

Apparently these are being considered for the next version!


> No dynamic closures.

Hmm? std::function works just fine with lambdas


> No mixins.

I don't _quite_ miss these ;)


> Little CTFE.

Yeah. :\


> No slicing.

You can sorta-kinda emulate these with iterators.

On the plus side, there's no ambiguity as to value vs. reference 
semantics in C++.


> No delegates.

std::function?


> No shared.

I don't think many people find themselves using shared in D 
unfortunately.


> No template symbolic arguments.

I'm not sure I know what this is referring to. Do you mean 
aliases?


> No template string arguments.

Ah I really miss this in C++...


> No alias this.

While alias this is nice, I don't seem to need it as often in C++ 
as you'd imagine.

It would come in handy sometimes, to be sure, but it's not a deal 
breaker IMO.