C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

[Atila Neves]

On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 11:53:35 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 10:40:33 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>> On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 15:06:16 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> They already work, except for the concatenation operator 
>> because it obviously requires the GC. And converiting a 
>> pointer from C code to D is easy, because you can slice 
>> pointers just like arrays -it's just that it won't be bounds 
>> checked.
>
> Nice.
>
> But if you want D to be REALLY appealing to a majority of C++ 
> developers, you'd better provide them with the FULL D 
> experience.
>
> And unfortunately, using builtin arrays/strings/slices/maps in 
> the usual way is probably a big part for it.
>
> Don't forget that concatenating strings in C++ is perfectly 
> ALLOWED in C++, WITHOUT using a GC...

Same in D, it's just that nobody's bothered writing a string 
class/struct.

Atila