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[Ecstatic Coder]

On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 12:13:27 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> 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

Indeed...