Daily downloads in decline

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 15:03:39 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Those are considerably less powerful:
> - can only have type arguments
> - no variadic argument list support
> - no arbitrary condition constraints (thus only partial duck 
> typing support)
>
> On the other hand they have one important advantage: all type 
> arguments must comply to one or more trairs and thus bodies of 
> generics are checked before institation. You are only allowed 
> to call methods and operations of generic arguments that are 
> defined in relevan trait. This is huge win for code hygiene 
> compared to D.
>
> Any sort of more advanced meta-programming things can only be 
> done via AST macros which is currently the biggest downside in 
> my eyes when it comes to features. Though quite some people 
> like that.

The fact that there is no support variadiс arguments, it is 
really negative.

It is possible that Walter and Andrei against macro because of 
this:

macro_rules! o_O {
     (
         $(
             $x:expr; [ $( $y:expr ),* ]
         );*
     ) => {
         &[ $($( $x + $y ),*),* ]
     }
}

fn main() {
     let a: &[i32]
         = o_O!(10; [1, 2, 3];
                20; [4, 5, 6]);

     assert_eq!(a, [11, 12, 13, 24, 25, 26]);
}

It looks disgusting! ;)