Why do C++ programmers are not interested in D?
Mark
smarksc at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 14:26:02 UTC 2019
On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 13:57:07 UTC, Pavel Shkadzko
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 13:06:29 UTC, Mark wrote:
>> In addition to what others have written, here's another thing
>> to consider: D's "killer feature" is its metaprogramming
>> capabilities, but I don't think most C++ programmers, rightly
>> or wrongly, care that much about metaprogramming. I think the
>> reason Rust hasn't replaced C++ (so far, anyway) is similar -
>> it's killer feature is "memory safety by default" but most C++
>> programmers that I know don't consider (lack of) memory safety
>> to be a major problem in the language.
>
> Sorry, could you please elaborate what do you mean by D
> "metaprogramming"?
Better known in the community as "Design by Introspection". See
for instance:
https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/template-meta-programming
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