Interpolated strings

[Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 21 April 2017 at 12:45:39 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> Multiple ways of doing the same thing are not valuable or 
> progressive.
>
> Go and Rust are both smashing D in popularity and user share, 
> maybe we could learn why that's the case.

Corporate backing and word-of-mouth?

I recall reading a KDE blog article about the problems of 
internationalizaton where you have large tables of pattern 
strings (think WelcomeMessage[EN]="Welcome $user to $hostname") 
where the tokens were very much in different ordering depending 
on language, or how some may even be considered implicit and 
ommitted outright. (Japanese springs to mind.)

It was way back now so I don't even know where to begin to start 
looking, but it highlighted how the ordering did not translate 
well into printf patterns. Citation needed but it's a use-case 
this would address.