On Monday, 28 September 2020 at 13:44:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Jean-Louis Leroy sent in a blog post prompted by Andrei's
"Perfect forwarding" challenge from the July #beerconf. He digs
into D's metaprogramming and code generation facilities, and
shows how he arrived at his "refraction" module.
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2020/09/28/function-generation-in-d-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-bolt/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/j1c6l6/function_generation_in_d_the_good_the_bad_the/
Interesting piece.
As part of the conclusion, it says:
"Some of the people helming the evolution of D are working on
changing this, and it is my hope that an improved D will emerge
in the not-too-distant future."
I found this a little vague. It might have been useful to briefly
discuss what types of things would help fix these issues or what
specifically people are working on (even with just a few links or
a footnote).
