On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 06:08:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
I will be presenting D as a time-saving tool at C++Now:
http://cppnow.org/
I have to say it took me a very long time to come up with the
title and the abstract. How could I sell D to C++ experts?
Luckily, I asked Manu and among a long list of ideas he said
"it's about saving time" and "time is money". How can you argue
with that? ;)
Do you agree or disagree that D brings competitive advantage?
Please let me know.
Safety (bounds checking, @safe, memory safety) is huge for
debugging. You can probably steal a lot from Walters DConf Talk.
Compilation time, because a quick iteration of edit-compile-test
is significant for productivity and really underrated.
C++ interop, so you can migrate from C++ to D in small steps and
without building a C API bridge.
Little things C++ lacks because it is too old: A package manager,
a standard string type.
Meta programming naturally, but "static if" might trail into
discussions about concepts, so it is a little bit dangerous?
