On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 09:02:58 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 08:57:17 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/
A recent article where github programming languages popularity
and migration got analysed was very interesting but it showed
one noticeable thing:
[...]
The beauty of D lies in it's holistic approach.
The one unique feature to point out would be CTFE which is not
to be found in other compiled langauges.
constexpr does not even come close since it cannot return
literals :0
There's Red: http://red-lang.org (to my understanding, you can
execute arbitrary Red (*) code in macro context; which is
basically CTFE+macros).
(*) Right now it accepts Rebol code because of implementation
limitations; the spec says Red code though and the developers
says this is planned.
