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

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:34:08PM +0000, rsw0x via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.
[...]

Is it really a *problem*, though? ;-)  Having C++ play catchup with D,
poorly, is good motivation for people to finally give up C++ and adopt
D.


T

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