On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 06:28:16 UTC, c0de517e wrote:
So I'm curious, do you think certain concepts went too far, that we should educate against some hypes and abuses, or you think that it's just my very partial view of the world and if looking at the C++ community at large, template metaprogramming is not abused?
Everything is a cost/benefit ratio. In C++, template are very complex beasts, and because of things like SFINAE, small errors can backfire quite badly.
In D, template are both simpler and more capable. It is therefore rational to used them more in D than in C++. The cost benefit equilibrium is at a different place.
I agree that template are overused in some C++ codebase. On the contrary, I would probably use even more template if I had to port such code in D.
