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You're right - thank you for this constructive criticism. The post was originally written as a DIP (D Improvement Proposal), and arguably suffers a little because of that.

Since Cython compiles to C++, it can use C++ templates directly, without the need for creating aliases to the specific instantiations you're gonna use. As far as I understand, you'…

Walter got a bit confused here - what he's describing is the owner/borrow system he's proposed to compete with Rust. This is unrelated to named parameters.

Both your convenience function and the quotes in the type name can be removed via the use of static opDispatch: struct FlagImpl(string name) { bool value; alias value this; } struc…

Humans started out with only one very limited language, then spread out to cover the world, and new languages flourished. As technology progressed and the world became smaller, hav…

> if your "library" is all templates, it's not a library TIL STL is not a library.

https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html#cpp-templates You will need to recreate the C++ function definitions in D and mark them extern(C++), but that's about it.

The spec says the GC may move, though the current GC doesn't do that: https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html#obj_pinning_and_gc There's also been some work on a precise GC for D: http…

> Is there a way in D to check at compile time if a type is a POD type ? http://dlang.org/phobos/std_traits#hasElaborateDestructor I believe this is what you're looking for. Mayhap…

'School in my opinion is an abstraction that isn't necessary anymore. A relic of the industrial age, when information was sparse and communities were largely illiterate.' While thi…

Oh, it's much worse than that. Not only would the original be the father, it would also be the same person. Hence, the original could be tried for any and every crime the clone com…