On Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 07:17:45 UTC, RSY wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 December 2020 at 21:03:36 UTC, Paulo Pinto
wrote:
On Thursday, 24 December 2020 at 08:36:54 UTC, RSY wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 at 19:00:14 UTC, evilrat wrote:
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C++ you need to write duplicate code (.h and .cpp)
C++ you need to care about header include order
C++ you need to forward declare everything you gonna use if
it is not included before
C++ you need to waste time waiting for compile
Fixed with C++20 modules.
I am already playing with the experimental support on VC++.
C++ you need to fight to get proper reflection
Coming in C++23, and partially available already with a mix of
type traits and constexpr.
I am all good for D vs C++, but one needs to update their
knowledge specially when the audience is up to date with
latest ISO C++'s capabilities.
It's like the story with the GC
You want everyone to like D because it has a GC despite it
being not updated in ages, and proved to not scale well
You do the same with modules and reflections now, D is clearly
better but for some reasons you don't want people to believe
that, worse you want people to see them as inferior to the poor
C++ one, because you clearly didn't mention any of that poor 1
phase compilation model
What is your goal here? you for sure don't want D to take off
It would be nice to see D taking off, I just happen not to be
blind to the competition.
That is the beauty of being an enterprise polyglot consultant, I
get to pick what customers want, and they want eco-systems and
platforms.
Which not only use GC in domains that D fails to, also get to
catch up with almost every feature that made D a better choice 10
years ago.
Blind advocacy won't get new users.
