Why is D unpopular, redux.

[FeepingCreature]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 07:15:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 06:17:38 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
>> Actually, I want to jump on this, because I think it's really 
>> important, and it's a core argument from my perspective for 
>> why D should have macros.
>
> Are you talking of AST macros?
>
Yeah, some combination of CTFE and DMDFE-as-a-library to allow 
CTFE functions to operate on (some abstraction over) code trees 
directly. The idea is that something like format strings could be 
offered as a library before it even entered the DIP process. That 
might also allow pulling a bunch of functionality out of the core 
language.