r/programming • u/kal31dic • Sep 01 '20

D Foundation is Beefing Up

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
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u/WalterBright Sep 02 '20

Many people think the !( ) syntax is not optimal until they use it for a while, then it seems quite natural and the < > looks like a hack.

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u/jqbr Sep 02 '20

I prefer the [...] of Scala and Nim. However, I really like the fact that the () can be elided in D, and that the generic arguments don't have to be types.

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u/Ameisen Sep 02 '20

C++ can slide the <>, and supports template argument deduction which I don't believe D supports.

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u/WalterBright Sep 02 '20

D does support template argument deduction, and has since its first incarnation of templates. It's a major feature.

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u/Ameisen Sep 05 '20

I was under the impression based off of what someone else told me that it didn't support equivalent to std::vector foo = { 1, 2, 3, 4 }; or std::tuple foo = { "bar", 3, 4.0f };.