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

[mee6]

On Sunday, 20 March 2022 at 10:55:49 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 March 2022 at 23:07:41 UTC, mee6 wrote:
>> On Saturday, 19 March 2022 at 20:05:52 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 19 March 2022 at 17:43:16 UTC, mee6 wrote:
>>>> This just boils down to the standard libraries and what they 
>>>> implement. You can write that helper function put it in a 
>>>> util file and never have to write it again. D is 
>>>> considerably lacking when it comes to robust third party 
>>>> libraries. C++ has so many good libraries in comparison. For 
>>>> D you pretty much have to roll your own implementation for 
>>>> everything else. There isn't even basic @nogc containers, so 
>>>> there's a lot you end up having to write yourself. The 
>>>> allocators are experimental, not sure how long it's been 
>>>> now. So there isn't a design philosophy to follow, you'd be 
>>>> making it from the ground up and that's a lot more work than 
>>>> a simple utility function. It feels like it's just left 
>>>> unsolved, it feels that way for D a lot.
>>>
>>> Excellent example of the off-topic vandalism of discussions I 
>>> wrote about the other day. It *always* happens as soon as 
>>> someone attempts to say something good about D.
>>>
>>> Your response has nothing to do with the post. If I were in 
>>> charge, I would delete it and ban you from posting here 
>>> again. Not sure if this is an organized effort, but troll 
>>> posts like this get tiring.
>>
>> It's not off topic, your post is completely off topic 
>> ironically though. A comparison was made and I elaborated on 
>> that comparison. It seems you don't like it cause I was being 
>> critical of D.
>
> You didn't engage *at all* with the topic of the post. You 
> dismissed it with one sentence:

Yes I did, the whole paragraph is about the topic. I said the 
example given is something that can be a single function you use 
as a utility. This can be a single header file in C++. Once you 
write the function it can be used again and again. Now C++ isn't 
perfect so you have to write the code yourself but it's a 
relatively simple function to write. On the other hand D has a 
problem with much more difficult problems to write, just like the 
std library is a library, there aren't many third party libraries 
that are of good quality. Including the STD library itself, as it 
too is a library to be criticized. And then I give an example.

All the above information is there just compressed. Sorry I 
inferred a few common knowledge things I thought were common 
knowledge and I ended up writing it in a more compact form.

>> You can write that helper function put it in a util file and 
>> never have to write it again.
>
> Then you went on to talk about something else, in an attempt to 
> change the topic completely - something that's the case with 
> 100% of these posts. Either engage with the post, start your 
> own thread, or post somewhere else. That's the way they do it 
> most places on the internet.

They are related or are we not talking about a function or 
utility function in a library and we are talking about how one 
library doesn't have that utility function. Now just replace 
utility function with a class instead. It's basically the same 
thing, your just arguing a straw man argument to dismiss the 
criticism instead of just addressing the criticism.