It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?
Stanislav Blinov
stanislav.blinov at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 22:29:56 UTC 2018
On Thursday, 15 November 2018 at 19:54:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:17:43AM -0800, Ali Çehreli via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> "We don't want C++ become like COBOL." My answer is, C++ is
>> heading exactly the same place not through natural death but
>> through those improvements.
> [...]
>
> And that's the problem with C++: because of the insistence on
> backward compatibility, the only way forward is to engineer
> extremely delicate and elaborate solutions to work around
> fundamental language design flaws...
Funny you should say that, as that same problem already holds D
back quite a lot. The Argument No.1 against pretty much any
change in recent years is "it will break too much code".
> Writing C++ code therefore becomes an exercise in navigating
> the obstacle course of an overly-complex and fragile language...
Same will happen to D. Or rather, it already has.
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