On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:25:49 +0100 "Rob T" <r...@ucora.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 2 November 2012 at 20:12:05 UTC, so wrote: > > On Friday, 2 November 2012 at 18:34:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg > > wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > Serious? It doesn't even have a "static if". > > .. and not even an array type, or string type, and the template > system remains in a semi-useless state in terms of practicality. > > But it is true that C++11 has added features that attempt to > catch up. > > I recall being very eager to try the new improvements out as soon > as they were available, yet soon afterwards I find myself > investing my time in D. > > C++ is permanently bogged down by too much legacy features that > are difficult to remove or repair, and I'm convinced that C++ > cannot be fixed without a redesign from the ground up. > > D has effectively "fixed" C++ already, so I agree with the claims > that D can be considered as a good C++ replacement. > > Also I expect that D will continue to evolve and improve, so it > may be that C++ can never catch up. > ///ditto To be fair though, asking "C++ vs D" on a D newsgroup is clearly going to be tilted more towards the D end ;) But yea, personally, I feel that C++11 is merely playing "catch up", and doing so on a broken leg. C++ does have the advantage of being almost universally supported with mature toolchains on pretty much any platform. D's toolchain is very mature on Linux, OSX and (aside from the COFF/OMF stuff) Win32, but still needs work for other platforms and also could use some work for dynamic libs. So whenever D is a viable option, I always go for it because I find it to be vastly superior, even to C++11 (which is merely "slightly less crappy than old C++", IMO). And then when I *have* to use C++, I do so while wishing I was doing it in D. FWIW, I did this little writeup (ok, "rant" ;) ) on my opinion of C++ vs D: https://semitwist.com/articles/article/view/top-d-features-i-miss-in-c
