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On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 13:16:13 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> Do templates Rust is better than D?

Those are considerably less powerful:
- can only have type arguments
- no variadic argument list support
- no arbitrary condition constraints (thus only partial duck 
typing support)

On the other hand they have one important advantage: all type 
arguments must comply to one or more trairs and thus bodies of 
generics are checked before institation. You are only allowed to 
call methods and operations of generic arguments that are defined 
in relevan trait. This is huge win for code hygiene compared to D.

Any sort of more advanced meta-programming things can only be 
done via AST macros which is currently the biggest downside in my 
eyes when it comes to features. Though quite some people like 
that.