Spotted on twitter: Rust user enthusiastically blogs about moving to D

bachmeier via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Mar 7 04:53:42 PST 2017


On Tuesday, 7 March 2017 at 09:54:36 UTC, qznc wrote:

> I somewhat wonder about "Arrays (arguably the most important 
> data structure) are actually sane, consistent, and very much 
> logically intuitive in D unlike the mess that’s C (and C++)." 
> At some points, people get bitten by the determinism issue [0]. 
> Probably, z0ltan was lucky so far. Nevertheless, arrays/slices 
> are the way they are for good reasons.
>
> [0] https://dlang.org/d-array-article.html

D's arrays are sane, consistent, and logically intuitive even 
accounting for the "determinism issue". I've never understood why 
this behavior is surprising - it's exactly what I'd expect. But 
then I don't program in a way that it's relevant, so maybe I 
don't understand how it matters.


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