Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

[Wyatt]

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 16:55:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Y'know, one feature I've always wanted is the equivalent of 
> preprocessed
> C code -- with all mixins expanded, aliases substituted with 
> their final
> target, templates fully expanded, all syntactic sugar lowered, 
> with the
> original code lines in comments, so that you can see exactly 
> how your
> code was translated, and whether it matches what you *think* it 
> does.
> This would also be invaluable for debugging, as then it will 
> map to the
> assembly code much better, which will help you trace where 
> things went
> wrong.
>
Considering how useful that sounds, I'm a little surprised this 
only has three votes in three years:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5051

-Wyatt