Ruby 3.0 to have immutable strings by default / C++ heading towards "generic all the time".

rsw0x via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 20 15:34:08 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 22:22:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/20/2015 3:07 PM, John Carter wrote:
>> https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/634386185507311616
>>
>> Yet another choice D got right "out of the box" :-)
>>
>> Even Bjarne is coming around to the "Generic all the time" 
>> view...
>>
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpSLRpOMJM
>>
>> Pity that concepts looks to be a very painful syntax for 
>> expressing what D does
>> so clearly.
>>
>> Hurry up Walter, the rest of the world is catching up to you! 
>> :-D
>>
>> (Just joking... things like this clearly show you're leading, 
>> and leading in the
>> right direction!)
>>
>
> I posted in another thread a while back a list of D features 
> that C++ is rushing to incorporate.

The problem is that they're incorporating them poorly and ugly. I 
was watching the video with Bjarne and he brought up the point of 
how much compiler time is increased by these features. It's 
something I take for granted in D, I suppose.


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