On 2012-11-02 18:03, "Erèbe" wrote:
Hello student here,
I have started to learn D a few months ago with Andrei's book (I really
liked arguments about design decisions), but as the same time I was
learning new features of C++11, and now I'm really confused. (As
learning projects, I've done an IRC Bot in D and an IPv6 stack in C++11)
D is a great language and introduce a lot of features I really like
(range, property, UFCS, great metaprogramming, ...) but C++11 and the
new standard librairy are well supported now.
I have some solid experience with C++, so I know how cumbersome C++
could be (C++11 and universal reference ?), but D has a lot of features
too and (as C++) a slow learning curve.
I would say that D is fairly scalable in it's set of features. You can
(mostly) program in D as you would in, say, Java. Then you can start
bringing in more features of the language as you see fit in your own
comfortable speed.
I would like to konw the point of view of the community about C++11 in
regard of D ? Is the gap between D and C++11 is getting thinner ? Do you
think D will keep attracting people while at the same time C++11 has
more support (debugger, IDE, Librairies, Documentation) ?
I would absolutely say that the gap is getting thinner. I would mostly
say that with C++11 C++ has finally started to catch up with D and the
rest of the world.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
