A Perspective on D from game industry

[c0de517e via Digitalmars-d]

> I think your perception is heavily colored by your bad 
> experience with
> C++. :)  Seriously, you should try some metaprogramming in D 
> sometime,
> and experience for yourself what *real* metaprogramming feels 
> like.
> Forget about that sorry mess that is C++; try it out afresh in 
> D and
> see, you might even like it afterwards. ;)
>
> I totally sympathize, 'cos I came from a strong C/C++ 
> background, and
> C++ templates are just... well, I can say they deserve their bad
> reputation. But unfortunately, that made people associate
> metaprogramming with C++'s poor implementation of it, when 
> actually,
> metaprogramming done right is actually very pleasant to use.
>
>
> T

I don't doubt that there are forms of metaprogramming that are 
MUCH better than C++, actually C++ is among the worst. But even 
in dunno, a lisp with hygienic macros, metaprogramming should be 
used imho with caution, because it's so easy to introduce all 
kind of new constructs that look nifty and shorten the code, but 
one has to understand that each time you add one it's one more 
foreign syntax that is local to a context and people have to 
learn and recognize