Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Rainer Deyke]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> Syntactic ambiguity.  Confusion between an instance of a class and a
>> reference to that instance.
> 
> I was initially thrown by this when I started some Java programming. But
> it soon became clear this was an advantage, and I came to prefer it.

I like it in Python, where all variables are references.  Java is
similar to Python in this regard, although the existence of primitive
value types complicates the situation somewhat.

I don't like it in D, where reference types and value types coexist.  I
especially don't like it in templates in D, where it may not be clear if
you're dealing with a reference type or a value type until instantiation.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com