Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 21:03:52 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 19:54:05 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Macros are utterly horrible and pretty much unusable outside
>> of advanced library internals.
>
> Not sure what you are referencing here. Macros expand to code. 
> If
> you compare this to string mixins, they are a lot easier for 
> tool
> writers, but a lot less powerful.
>

I've read that someone managed to implement compile time regex 
using macros in Rust. The author of it noted that D was the only 
other language he knew of that had pulled that off. The fact that 
it's expressive enough to pull off one of Phobo's coolest tricks 
is impressive I think. I don't know enough about it to have my 
own opinions of how it fairs against D in general. It could very 
well be that doing stuff like that is far beyond anyone but the 
most advanced users though I don't think many D users could pull 
of what Dmitry has done either.