Better branding of -betterC

J. V. jv at jv.com
Wed Nov 4 13:06:58 UTC 2020


On Saturday, 31 October 2020 at 16:22:32 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Saturday, 31 October 2020 at 01:57:19 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 10/29/2020 5:48 AM, Abdulhaq wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure that Jai is not mimicking D, also I doubt 
>>> that Zig is either.
>>
>> D popularized CTFE, and other languages followed suit, 
>> including Jai.
>
> Sorry but that flag belongs to Lisp and Dylan macros, Java 
> compiler plugins, Java/.NET manipulation of 
> attributes/annotations and C++ template meta-programing.
>
> D CTFE has definitely a very important value, but not 
> everything that other languages adopt was created by D.

You are mixing things. C# attributes and Java annotations are not 
even close to have the same capabilities as CTFE, nor they work 
in the same way.

Reading your posts/responses, it looks like you are one of those 
guys that tries so hard to look smart and ends up writing a lot 
of wrong information and throws random references.


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