On Saturday, 27 March 2021 at 20:44:12 UTC, Brad wrote:
I was looking through lots of sample code on Rosetta Code. D
has a lot of solutions out there. That is really nice but it
has me wondering - coming from other languages that do not
support the concept of immutability - do real world programmers
and/or hobbyists really use it as much as I see it on Rosetta
Code? I know it adds a layer of security to your code, but I
am still thinking "why?".
Thanks for entertaining a newbie question.
I'm not enough of an expert on immutable to give an informed
opinion (I don't care for the implementation). Jonathan Davis has
written this blog post about the limitations of const, which also
talks about immutable quite a bit:
http://www.jmdavisprog.com/articles/why-const-sucks.html
