atomic operations compared to c++

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 14 June 2017 at 12:15:49 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 12:28 +0100, rikki cattermole via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> > [...]
>
> Step back a moment. C++ and Java are trying to stop programmers 
> using these features, in favour of using higher level 
> abstractions. In C++ and Java such features as above are often 
> required to implement the higher level abstraction but so as to 
> allow other programmers not to have to use them.
>
> [...]

Especially since D has officially support for inline assembly. 
All these low-level constructs are better handled directly at the 
machine code level as their semantic varies significantly between 
architectures.