On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 13:35:22 UTC, ketmar wrote:
people with Java/C/C++/etc. background tend to forget about the
power of
metaprogramming: they have no such tool at hand, so they don't
even think
about it.
three things that one need to become used of are UFCS (so
std.algorighm
functions chains nicely), lambdas, and metaprogramming. but
that has
downside: when you get used to those, you simply can't get back
to Java/C/
C++/etc. anymore, they feels like something from the past
age... ;-)
Actually metaprogramming is how a lot of magic happens in Java
and .NET.
It just tends to be frowned up in many companies due to
maintenance headhaches when one gets too clever.
