rust reaction to walter's talk on interfacing to C++

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

> That's funny. I would have said that those were _advantages_ 
> for D. D's constness can certainly be unwieldy (some sort of 
> equivalent to C++ mutable would be a very welcome addition if 
> we could pull it off), but whatever flaws D's const may have, 
> the transitivity is a huge plus overall IMHO, and I would have 
> said that the struct/class split was a huge win. It properly 
> segregates the inheritance stuff to reference types while not 
> forcing all user-defined types of any complexity to be 
> reference types.
>
> So, while I'm quite sure that Rust has advantages over D, I 
> would not have listed those among them.


In general, yes, but in terms of interfacing with C++ they are a 
bit irksome.