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> D made a great leap forward > and a big chunk of wasted time trying to abstract these away and getting it wrong anyway was saved. Millions of people cried ou
by bmacho 2y ago
> D made a great leap forward
> and a big chunk of wasted time trying to abstract these away and getting it wrong anyway was saved. Millions of people cried out in relief!
Nah. It is actually pretty bad. Type names with explicit sizes (u8, i32, etc) are way better in every way.
- WalterBright 2y ago> Type names with explicit sizes (u8, i32, etc) are way better in every way Until one realizes that the entire namespace of innn, unnn, fnnn, etc., is reserved.
- bmacho 2y agoYou are right, they come with a cost.