Compare boost::hana to D

[Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 08:19:52 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I'm brushing up on my C++ to prepare for my C++Now 2017 
> presentation[1]. boost::hana is an impressive library that 
> overlaps with many D features:
>
>   
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_64_0_b2/libs/hana/doc/html/index.html
>
> Have you used boost::hana? What are your thoughts on it?
>
> And please share your ideas for the presentation. There has 
> been threads here about C++ closing the gap. Does D still bring 
> competitive advantage or is it becoming irrelevant? (Obviously, 
> some think its irrelevant already.) I'm trying to collect 
> opinions... :)
>
> Thank you,
> Ali
>
> [1] 
> http://cppnow.org/2017-conference/announcements/2017/04/09/d-keynote.html

I was at C++ Meeting 2016 in Berlin, where Louis Dionne talked 
about hana in his keynote [1]. I've summarized my feelings in a 
blog post [2]. In short, you can do the same tricks in D, but 
frequently there's an idiomatic way to express the same thing 
just as concisely without them.
And of course, feel free to use any part of my post in your talk. 
:)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_p9X5RzBJE
[2] https://epi.github.io/2017/03/18/less_fun.html