rust reaction to walter's talk on interfacing to C++

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 22 March 2016 at 08:52:23 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>     Rust has two advantages I can think of: it doesn't have the 
> struct/class split that D does, and it has non-transitive *mut 
> and *const (at least, I don't think they're transitive in Rust).

That's funny. I would have said that those were _advantages_ for 
D. D's constness can certainly be unwieldy (some sort of 
equivalent to C++ mutable would be a very welcome addition if we 
could pull it off), but whatever flaws D's const may have, the 
transitivity is a huge plus overall IMHO, and I would have said 
that the struct/class split was a huge win. It properly 
segregates the inheritance stuff to reference types while not 
forcing all user-defined types of any complexity to be reference 
types.

So, while I'm quite sure that Rust has advantages over D, I would 
not have listed those among them.

- Jonathan M Davis