What are the worst parts of D?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 25 16:45:21 PDT 2014


On 9/25/14, 4:07 PM, Brian Rogoff wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 13:49:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I've recently used Rust a bit and the curse of D users as of 6-7 years
>> ago reached me: most code I download online doesn't compile for
>> obscure reasons, it's nigh impossible to figure out what the fix is
>> from the compiler error message, searching online finds outdated
>> documentation that tells me the code should work, and often it's
>> random name changes (from_iterator to from_iter and such, or names are
>> moved from one namespace to another).
>
> That's more than a bit unfair.

This is not about fairness. -- Andrei



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