It's nice to see some D ideas make it into C++.
I think that D is kind of like Mercurial: both less popular than some other wildly popular alternative, but we still hope that at least some of their ideas trickle back into the more popular sibling.
I think that D is kind of like Mercurial: both less popular than some other wildly popular alternative, but we still hope that at least some of their ideas trickle back into the more popular sibling.
D is probably more like, hmm, Esperanto? Carefully designed but few people know about it.
Haskell would probably be Lojban...
Java's even more verbose, so it probably has the stronger claim on German,* which I guess makes C++ Danish and Perl English. :)
The kinds of features that eventually hit C++, D actually had for at least ten years. I think of D as a clean break. A major version upgrade with an API break. Whereas C++ has committees that move incredibly slowly, D has two architects who are decades long professionals and considered experts in their fields. It has focus, and it's not concerned with making code from the 70's compile on a modern compiler.
I simply cannot enumerate all of the features I use from D that I use every day that have become second-nature. Until I try to code in C++ again and I'm like, "The !@$@!ing order of declarations matter?! I can't make circular references without manually writing forward declarations?!" It feels like banging rocks together to make a 747.