Reddit: why aren't people using D?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Jul 23 09:21:27 PDT 2009


Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The issues are discussed in the book C++ Coding Standards and also in
>> More Effective C++. Part of the problem is slicing, which you may want
>> to google for. MEC++ discusses the problem of defining constructors and
>> particularly copy constructors in hierarchies. Assignment and comparison
>> are also problematic.
> 
> Yes, C++ has problems, but these problems can be fixed!

How? Minding constantly a set of dangerous problems is not fixing it.

> The
> struct/class split, on the other hand, introduces many more problems
> that are harder to fix.

Again: what are those problems?


Andrei



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