On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 13:14:50 UTC, Mark wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 09:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
"C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law"
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804
What do you think of the following comment to that article?
"In well-written modern C++, memory management errors are a
solved problem. You can just write code, and know that the
compiler and library will take care of cleaning up for you,
just like with a GC-based system, but with the added benefit
that it’s deterministic, and can handle non-memory resources
such as file handles and sockets too."
As a former C++ programmer, the comment is exactly right, in C++
resource management is a solved problem (or at least feels like
it which doesn't say much), and in D it's way more _complex_
(many cases, many workarounds, and _you have to understand it_,
for example you need a mental model of how the GC works).
There is also a downside to the C++ scoped owership wa: you have
to find an owner for everything even if they are just memory. So
small scripts in D will be written almost 2x faster because of
that and rich stdlib.
THe other
