[OT] - C++ exceptions are becoming more and more problematic

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 28 February 2022 at 01:47:47 UTC, meta wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 19:32:47 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 18:02:54 UTC, Bruce Carneal 
>> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Yes.  Staying with C++, especially if you've got a very large 
>>> code base, makes more sense to me than *starting* a new C++ 
>>> project.
>>
>> How do you start a new project in D for PlayStation 
>> 5/Switch/XBox or get a AUTOSAR certification for deployment of 
>> D written software?
>>
>> Unless one is willing to do the work Unity has been doing with 
>> C#, or Ferrous Systems is doing with Rust, D isn't going to 
>> the choice, rather those.
>
> Unity isn't shipping C# on consoles, they are shipping C++ 
> code, using IL2CPP, then they compile the C++ to target the 
> various platforms..
>
>
> You guys enumerates features that competes with C/C++/Rust, why 
> the hell the idea to compete with C#/F# came from? Someone 
> wants to hit walls rather than profiting from D's strengths as 
> a System language..
>
> There is 2 visions for the languages that is clashing, sorting 
> this out should be the priority.. it obviously prevents us to 
> move forward..

Unity is shipping machine code into consoles.

How that C# code got massaged into machine code is irrelevant.

C++ used to be a source translator into C until Walter shipped 
the first proper compiler, so what.

Whatever vision, doesn't matter if D doesn't know where it wants 
to be.

D had an opportunity to make it big like C# on games industry, so 
here is where the idea comes from.