It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Wed Nov 14 15:33:49 UTC 2018


On 15/11/2018 4:07 AM, lagfra wrote:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/9vwvbz/2018_san_diego_iso_c_committee_trip_report_ranges/ 
> 
> 
> By 2020 C++ is planning to introduce:
> 
> * Ranges

Really butchered. From what I can see they never mentioned D in any of 
the documents (kinda glad tbh). Those documents even question what it 
should be doing...

And the example code... yikes.
No way that is going to be used.

> * Contracts
> * Concepts (`__traits`)
> * Proper constexpr
> * Modules
> * Reflections
> * Green threads

Skepticism especially when there is 2023 being listed as a conservative 
estimate on the Reddit post.



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