C++ launched its community survey, too

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On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 17:33:52 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 15:52:15 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> https://isocpp.org/blog/2018/02/new-cpp-foundation-developer-survey-lite-2018-02
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I have submitted, already. My major complaints boils down to 
> the fact that they refuse to deprecated features due to 
> religious like devotions to backwards compatibility support.

Well, not religious but... they are removing things too slow. 
There is a paper about stability and velocity of C++ that 
proposes to widen things to move forward faster and... btw I 
complained about exactly that as well. Things are getting bigger 
and bigger, just discard things. I also complained about the 
following:

1.- everyone is saying stop the preprocessor... modules support 
no preprocessor after import... ok, then, why feature test 
macros? They should be enums or constexpr but never a 
preprocessor macro.
2.- the single thing that bothers me the most... initialization 
is a mess, especially after adding {} vs (). With good intention, 
but the cognitive overhead and room for surprises is too big.
3.- if constexpr cannot simply compete with static if. I 
suggested adding: if constexpr that does not require a template 
function, and some alternative if constexpr mechanism (I do not 
care about the name or if it is a separate feature) that can 
conditionally compile structs or block scopes a la version() in 
D. This feature is needed to kill the preprocessor if they really 
want to take that seriously, especially with modules on its way.

BTW, I have been trying a bit of D lately and I like how flexible 
things such as opDispatch and static if are. I love modules as 
well. I like a lot also the fact that you do not need to be 
prefixing all things all the time because of potential hijacking. 
The static reflection has also been useful for me. I was just 
coding a SNES ROM parser but that was enough already to show some 
of the advantages.