[Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 15:30:16 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> They have compiler support which removes the syntactical noise 
> of
> templates and makes them behave more natural.

Indeed. I don't mind the syntax (actually, I prefer RefCounted!T 
to ~T or whatever symbol rust uses) but there's some other things 
their compiler does like forbid reassigning a refcounted thing if 
you have a pointer to it still in scope that D can't do in the 
library.

But the library types can do the bulk of it, and disabling 
certain problematic parts of the struct helps keep it sane.

> I wonder how many D programmers actually use Phobos' library
> pointer types.

Ironically, I don't, but I do use similar recreations for certain 
tasks.