How does Circle's CTFE compare to D?

Tejas notrealemail at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 14:44:10 UTC 2021


On Saturday, 4 December 2021 at 14:00:22 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 December 2021 at 09:49:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> On Saturday, 4 December 2021 at 08:43:14 UTC, Johannes Riecken 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Circle is primarily interesting because it pushes the 
>> boundaries for C++, but does it allow the execution of any C++ 
>> function? I/O can make things very complicated as you either 
>> have to impose a specific compilation order or use some other 
>> ordering or constraining principle to avoid dependency issues 
>> or feedback loops. This in turns makes it impossible to accept 
>> the execution of any C++ function!
>>
>> ...
>
> Yes it does, have fun with Circle.
>
> https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/embed/embed.md

That tone didn't sound very positive

What do you think about Circle?
I personally dislike the `@meta` everywhere :(
Plus, C++ syntax D:


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