Daily downloads in decline

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On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 13:35:25 UTC, QAston wrote:
> For me simple templates + simple macros are clearer than 
> complicated templates + ctfe + mixins.

My experience of explaining those concepts to other people 
indicates otherwise. D templates and mixins are dirty but also 
very simple concepts that pretty much any new programmers gets 
quickly and intuitively, learning how to do more complicated 
magic in a small steps. Macros are just never really simple as 
they operate within AST domain and programmers not familiar with 
language developer tend to be more confortable with thinking on 
the source code level. It is a more robust power tool for 
experienced developers but that does not feel like a good 
justification.