Rust and D

[mist]

There are also some people that think that compile time 
metaprogramming is the single best thing happened to programming 
languages. And, hey, what language will I use if you tear it 
apart from D? :P

On Friday, 28 September 2012 at 18:21:32 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 28 September 2012 at 17:42:07 UTC, Froglegs wrote:
>>  The Rust website says this:
>>
>> Generic types	yes, only simple, non-turing-complete 
>> substitution
>>
>>  After seeing that I just assumed the language was worthless 
>> and
>> ignored it..  is there something more to this?
>
> As far as I understand it, Rust supports generic types a la C#, 
> Modula-3, Eiffel, Ada, among others.
>
> Meaning you cannot play meta-programming tricks with them.
>
> For me that is ok, sometimes in D I think we suffer from 
> meta-programming overdose.