On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 11:47:20 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:
Instead I think that if we improve D's existing introspection
capabilities and expose the compiler as a library at
compile-time, we will have a much powerful system than any
potential macro system, for a fraction of the complexity.
These videos are what changed my mind:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZwYYW9koI
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59lKAlb6cRg
(Jonathan Blow's programming language for games)
It is like one of these simili good idea that everybody tries and
everybody regrets it. You DON'T want to expose your compiler
implementation to the language.
Jonathan Blow is certainly a talented person, but he has a very
grave NIH syndrome and various blind spot in language design.
