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[Ecstatic Coder]

On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 02:10:31 UTC, Jerry wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 16:29:22 UTC, Ecstatic Coder 
> wrote:
>>>> If all that is already available, perfect :)
>>> [snip]
>>>> And moreover I'd be delighted to start using D instead of Go 
>>>> for my next web server developments.
>>>
>>> You can start now and get performance later? In fact you may 
>>> supply important benchmarks from your day to day usage.
>>
>> Ok. Still not convinced to use D instead of C++ for my 
>> personal use cases (games and other soft real-time apps), but 
>> I get the idea.
>
> I switched my personal game to D from C++. Was easy, most of it 
> was just copy paste. I was writing a math library to replace 
> the one I was using to make it a bit more light way and to fit 
> my needs a bit more. I didn't like how some thing were 
> implemented in the library I was using. So I started with 
> templates, I need multiple types and what not for the same 
> purpose. At some point I have a function that needs to take 2 
> different template types.
> It starts to get so convoluted, order matters cause C++ still 
> just uses copy-paste-includes and I don't think modules made it 
> into C++17. I wrote the same library in half the code, in a way 
> that's more readable and manageable. I didn't have to define 
> things so that they would work, I could define them logically 
> the way I'd expect them to be. Mixins also reduced code quite a 
> bit, generating functions for different types and dimensions. 
> Even though you have constexpr if statements now you still need 
> to define all the function bodies even if they all can go in 
> one function body now.

Thanks for sharing your experience !