On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 20:33:34 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:41:49 +0000, nbro wrote:
Does D
offer something that other known programming languages, such
as C++,
Java and Python, do not offer?
D has in the standard runtime Fibers (aka coroutines).
You can use fibers in C++ if you find a library to do it (boost
might?). You might be able to find a Java library for it, but
it's difficult and might require bytecode rewriting. I think
pypy has coroutines. But on the whole, it's a bear to find
working coroutines in most languages.
Go has "goroutines", which are effectively coroutines that are
entirely hidden from you. If you need to manage scheduling
yourself, or you need to ensure that a particular thing is
running all the time, this really isn't an option in Go.
Yeah, boost can do fibers. ASIO has clever/hacky "stackless
coroutines" and C++17 is going to add "stackless resumable
functions" for async/await. D is about to lose a competitive
advantage here.
