a "success story for D" ! !!

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 May 2015 at 16:05:16 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 May 2015 at 12:43:38 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 6/05/2015 12:37 a.m., ponce wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 5 May 2015 at 12:04:39 UTC, Alex Ogheri wrote:
>>>> Hi guys, did you know this ??
>>>>
>>>> http://vlang.org/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In fact, it gathered quite an enthusiastic appreciation at 
>>>> dvcon in
>>>> Munich!!
>>>
>>> Paper: http://vlang.org/dvcon2014.pdf
>>>
>>> I'd say that's pretty huge!
>>
>> http://proceedings.dvcon-europe.org/2014/presentations_and_papers/T5_5_presentation.pdf
>
> It's amazing when you think there was such a push-back against 
> UDAs when they were introduced, and here they are, being 
> incredibly useful in all sorts of description task.

There was pushback on ADU, there was pushback on the way they are 
specified, and considering half the doc about UDA is antipattern, 
there is hard data to show that this pushback was justified.