On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 05:46:29 UTC, Kirill Kryukov wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 01:36:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
D USERS **WANT** BREAKING CHANGES THAT INCREASE OVERALL CODE
QUALITY WITH A SIMPLE MIGRATION PATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This.
(...)
I don't want to become an expert in avoiding language pitfalls
(The reason I abandoned C++ years ago).
+1
If you have too many pitfalls in the language, its not easier to
learn than C++, just different (regardless of the maximum
productivity you have when using the language, that's another
issue).
The worst case is you just want to use ASCII text and suddenly
you have to spend weeks reading a ton of confusing stuff about
Unicode, D and autodecoding, just to know how to use char[]
correctly in D.
Compare that to how trivial it is to process ASCII text in, say,
C++.
And processing just plain ASCII is a very common case, e.g.
processing textual logs from tools.
