On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 14:33:33 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
Why indeed!
"I am appalled at the monstrous messes that computer scientists
can produce under the name of ‘improvements’. It is to efforts
such as C++ that I here refer. These artifacts are filled with
frills and features but lack coherence, simplicity,
understandability and implementability. If computer scientists
could see that art is at the root of the best science, such
ugly creatures could never take birth."
If it is not implementable (it is complex, I agree), why there
are 3 major compilers? I think the future should go towards
simplification a bit more for the idiomatic code. But there are
features you cannot ignore in low-level languages: asm embedding,
bit control, reference vs value, due to register efficiency and
others. So I do not think it is such a *super bad* choice. In
day-to-day life you need these things.
