Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 08:58:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I would have had a LOT more trouble shipping the Warp project 
> if I hadn't gone with 100% coverage from the ground up. Nearly 
> all the bugs it had in the field were due to my 
> misunderstandings of the peculiarities of gpp - the code had 
> worked as I designed it.
>
> This is a huge reason why I want to switch to ddmd. I want to 
> improve the quality of the compiler with unit tests. The 
> various unit tests schemes I've tried for C++ are all ugly, 
> inconvenient, and simply a bitch. It's like trying to use a 
> slide rule after you've been given a calculator.

LOL. I finally got some bugs sorted out on the project that I'm 
working on at work (in C++), which means that I can get back to 
what I was working on implementing before, and about all I recall 
for sure is that I was working on the unit tests for it. I don't 
know where I was with them. I find myself wishing that I had -cov 
so that I could figure out what I had left to test... :(

It often seems like the advantages of some of D's features are 
more obvious when you have to go back to another language like 
C++ which doesn't have them.

- Jonathan M Davis