[OT] What are D's values?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Thursday, 7 October 2021 at 20:12:49 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> Wow, are modern C++ compilers crashy *when compared to D*? I 
> definitely agree that D compilers nowadays are more than stable 
> enough for production, but do they really rival the most common 
> C++ ones?

LDC rivals clang of course. On what metric do you think it 
wouldn't?
And if you have used C++ professionally, yes you stumble upon 
compiler bugs. I certainly have. And in that case there is often 
no nice bugtracker to file that bug.

D having one front-end means that in practice you have less 
unknowns.

> More news for me, if you really mean that. C++ does add 
> features fast for such an old language. But changing faster 
> than D, considering they tend to keep the old features around 
> where we deprecate them? Really?

Yes really, it is very difficult to keep up with the C++ changes 
even if you were a full-time C++ programmer. And you need to 
since people start to use the new stuff when available. It is 
very likely that when the next standard comes out, you would have 
barely assimilated the one from 10 years ago. C++ needs a cast of 
"explainers" like Scott Meyers.