D easily overlooked?

Enamex via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 14 08:14:59 PDT 2017


On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 09:02:58 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 08:57:17 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
>> https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/
>>
>> A recent article where github programming languages popularity 
>> and migration got analysed was very interesting but it showed 
>> one noticeable thing:
>>
>> [...]
>
> The beauty of D lies in it's holistic approach.
>
> The one unique feature to point out would be CTFE which is not 
> to be found in other compiled langauges.
>
> constexpr does not even come close since it cannot return 
> literals :0

There's Red: http://red-lang.org (to my understanding, you can 
execute arbitrary Red (*) code in macro context; which is 
basically CTFE+macros).

(*) Right now it accepts Rebol code because of implementation 
limitations; the spec says Red code though and the developers 
says this is planned.


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