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

[Tofu Ninja]

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:14:05 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> 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

I didn't even know that was out there, I never go to the issue 
tracker, seems unwieldy and unfriendly to me..