On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 21:37 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=421 > > This is interesting as it relates to D's choices: > > 1. No common build system ,Visual Studio, make and CMake are the most widely > used
Don't forget the far superior SCons. And also Waf, Tup,… > D - no change. Apart from Dub? > 2. Namesapces not widely used Really? Maybe I habg out with better than average C++ programmers ;-) > D - forces use of namespaces, i.e. modules > > 3. Inheritance and polymorphism are widely used > > It's my impression that D uses a lot more parametric polymorphism (i.e. > templates) than virtual inheritance. > > 4. Design Patterns not widely used > > Don't know if D changes that. Most programmers still only know of GoF patterns if they know of any, and they are now 21 years old and nothing like as useful/relevant as they we 20 years ago. > 5. No common frameworks for the GUI, database access and logging needs. > > Same for D, though std.experimental.logger may change that. > > 6. Smart pointers not enough used > > The general problem with SP is you have to proactively use them, they are not > the default. D's gc pointers are the default. unique_ptr and shared_ptr are now standard and widely used with RAII so as to ensure all heap use is properly managed. Or maybe the C++ programmers I know are not representative? > > 7. STL widely used , not boost > > Phobos' ranges appear to be widely used. Boost is both great and a real problem… > 8. Exceptions not widely used > > Exceptions are embraced in D, perhaps even excessively :-) To be fair, exceptions in C++ have termination semantics and so should be very rarely used. Your comment implies D exceptions are more like Java exceptions, for handling errors. > 9. For many projects two or more ways used to represent a string class > > D's strings are built-in to the language, which is a huge win for > consistency. > Even modern C++ suffers from two distinct string types. And there was me thinking std::string was standard in C++ ;-) > 10. New created projects use more the new C++ standards > > As they should. Indeed; any C++ project not using C++14 is wrong. ;-) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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