On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 16:45:15 UTC, jfondren wrote:
On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 16:01:08 UTC, pascal111 wrote:
It's clear by working with D that it has the same bad point
like Pascal language; the "verbosity". Is there any plans in
future to make some shorthanded techniques that clean
verbosity from D?
That's not clear to me at all, and your Pascal example about a
feature that C and D both have, that doesn't help either. Post
some code that seems particularly verbose to you. I think
'library code' tends to grow attributes like mushrooms, and
that D gets longer when you try to avoid the GC, but casual use
of D isn't more verbose than scripting languages. With
competitors like Rust and C++ Go and and Zig, D usually wins
pretty significantly in this respect. The only consistently
less verbose language in this space is Nim, IMO.
Do consider Go and Rust languages in the same level of C++ to
make this comparison? I didn't use these languages before but I
think they are just new languages which has no real history like
C++ to compare with!!!
With that said, dmd previews =in and =shortenedMethods both
allow shorter expressions in D. And there are some C++ (and
even C) convenience features that D doesn't have, like
destructuring binds, or doesn't like, like anonymous struct
literals with named fields.
What destructuring binds? I didn't hear about that before.
