On Thursday, 26 April 2012 at 12:30:02 UTC, Nicolas Sicard wrote:
I think that many D powerful features are also easily done in Python or have easy to use equivalents, thanks to built-in dictionaries, list comprehensions, eval, etc. and so many available libraries. Albeit at the price of a sloooow execution comparing to D (unless you can utilize native extensions).
Heavily used features on a certain scale or larger _should_ be built into the language. C++ added new/delete for memory management, but didn't give you any good containers; Although the STL is there (Honestly without watching a good explanation of how the STL is suppose to work, I got totally lost, and nothing made sense).
Honestly dealing with the issues of C++ templates, syntax and macros makes me feel like I'm driving with square wheels (It's a bumpy ride). To quote Adam Savage (Mythbusters) "Square wheels are stupid".
Unfortunately something in my brain makes learning unfamiliar languages that don't follow the structured syntax similar to C/Java/C++/D. I get utterly lost and my head as feels like it's dividing by zero.
