On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 at 05:41:35 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
What are you stuck at? What was the most difficult features to understand? etc.
I don't know if this counts as a feature, but reading the standard library documentation was especially difficult. There are a ton of `auto`s everywhere and function signatures are hard to read because of that. I got used to confusing function signatures in a week or two, but it made me consider not using D.
To make it more meaningful, what is your experience with other languages?
Rust does a better job at this. Generics are strongly-typed with `trait`s. In D, we have to type-check `struct`s ourselves by adding `if (is(T == SomeType))` etc. after the function declaration. In Rust, you can create a `trait` and use that as the parameter type in a function.
In D we can have this with `interface`s when we're using `class`es but we can't have this for `struct`s. Actually, I'd appreciate if we could get `static interface`s or something, so that people won't need to type-check manually.
