Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 22:42:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 20:47:00 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What do you dislike about C++ coverage tooling in comparison 
> with D's?

To get code coverage in C++, I'd have to go track down a tool to 
do it. There is none which is used as part of our normal build 
process at work. As it is, we only have unit tests because I went 
and added what was needed to write them and have been writing 
them. No one else has been writing them, and if I want any kind 
of code coverage stuff set up, I'd have to go spend the time to 
figure it out. With D, it's all built-in, and I don't have to 
figure out which tools to use or write any of them myself - 
either for unit testing or code coverage. They're just there and 
ready to go.

- Jonathan M Davis