DIP74 - where is at?
deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Oct 10 17:20:07 PDT 2015
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 23:25:49 UTC, Manu wrote:
> So I have another upcoming opportunity to introduce D in my
> workplace, this time as a front-end/plugin language to our C++
> infrastructure, which is promising since I already have
> considerable experience in this area (my work at Remedy with
> Quantum Break), and there is a lot of recent work to interact
> better with C++, which we will stress-test extensively.
>
> You only get so many shots at this; but this is a particularly
> promising opportunity, since the C++ code is a nightmare, and
> the contrast against D will allow a lot of coders to see the
> advantage.
>
> There is however one critical missing feature, DIP74... where
> is it at currently? How is it going? Is it likely to be
> accepted in the near-term? Some sort of approximate timeline?
>
> I think it would be a mistake for me to introduce this without
> DIP74, since we will rely on it VERY heavily, and the machinery
> to work-around it will start to look just as heavy-weight as
> the C++ code I'm trying to deprecate... but then waiting on it
> starts to look like missing the window of opportunity.
>
> Thoughts?
It doesn't looks like it is getting implemented. And, to be
honest, I'd rather go a principle approach + library support
rather than a pie of hacks.
The pile of hacks approach is what made C++ C++.
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