Daily downloads in decline

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 08:54:54 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 22:01:22 UTC, Dennis Ritchie 
> wrote:
>> No bounds checking of arrays.
>
> Huh? Whatever gave you that impression?
>
>> Well, if Rust created for huge projects, why these macros? I 
>> fear that macros are simply not needed in C-family languages.
>> The macros help in D? Write unbearable code? :D
>
> They're a lot cleaner than C's macros. AFAIK, Rust's writef() 
> equivalent is implemented with them.

Rust's macros make me wish mixins weren't so ugly to use, or we 
had proper AST macros.