Talk on what a systems programming language needs to replace C

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Thu Sep 5 20:49:56 UTC 2019


On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 02:32:16PM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2019-09-05 01:13, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > This is essentially what AST macros are, a feature that has been
> > repeatedly proposed for D. I've blocked it each time.
> 
> I just going to leave this here for everyone:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRfTk44nuWE&t=1h05m38s
[...]

So what happened since then that Walter is now staunchly against AST
macros?


T

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