On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 19:34:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
It's risky to compare with languages you aren't strongly
familiar with. All it takes is one mistake and one audience
member who knows more than you about it, and it can seriously
derail and damage the entire presentation.
I recommend sticking with describing the unique D features, and
let the audience members who know other languages draw their
own comparisons.
I do agree with this.
But by the same token, the table highlights what actually are the
unique D features. I make a point that the languages themselves
are reasonable enough replacements for C++ in many circumstances,
but that the things I do with D's compile time functionality
aren't easily achievable in those languages.
At this point, the only thing I still haven't found concrete
information on is function inspection in Swift and Rust, which
should be a mark against the languages if it's not easily
Googlable.
