Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 15:30:19 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
>> globals.write = &(writeln!string);
>
> Woah, I never thought of using it like that!

Yeah, since writeln is a template, you need to instantiate it 
with some arguments. This isn't the ideal way to do it in the 
script btw, it'd be like:

globals.write = (var this_, var[] args) { writeln(args); };

or something like that - this signature gives a variadic function 
to the scripting language, whereas writeln!string just has a 
single argument.

But, of course, the script language cannot instantiate D 
templates itself, so you gotta do that before assigning it to the 
runtime var. But from there, the jsvar.d reflection code will 
handle the rest of var<->string conversions.

> I use it in my toml parser and it's very pleasant.  I figured 
> it probably isn't very fast, but it works and that's important.

kewl! Did you use the script component for interpreting or just 
the jsvar part for the data?