Just an example, why D rocks, and C++ s***s...

[Carsten Schlote]

On Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 11:56:33 UTC, bauss wrote:
> There's also a clear difference in the philosophy of the two 
> languages.
>
> D aims a lot to be general purpose, C++ aims to be flexible and 
> usable in all areas, even low-level or obscure systems.

In BetterC mode or with GC disabled you can use D for low-level 
as well.

> Thus D standard library makes a lot of decisions and 
> assumptions for the users and locks users within those 
> guidelines mostly.

The phobos library is perfectly tuned to support every-days work, 
D scripts (!) and tools. I use Dlang a lot for scripting and 
build tools. This is more or less impossible in C/C++ as nearly 
everything useful is missing in libc and the stdc++ libraries.

> C++ doesn't make a lot of decisions or assumptions about the 
> user, everything is mostly left up to the user to decide how 
> they want to do a specific thing.

So everyone is reinventing the wheel for even the most simplest 
things. This is surely no advantage.

> So if you want total control and freedom, then you'll end up 
> with something like what C++ offers anyway.

As said, in BetterC mode you can create bare-bine code as well. 
But with most important D language features still available.