A New Era for the D Community

[IchorDev]

On Saturday, 13 May 2023 at 15:58:12 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
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> - better enums
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> - tagged union
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> - pattern matching
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> - async
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> - nullable
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> - tuple/multiple return (deconstruction)
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> - allocators (don't do them as classes/interface for the love 
> of god)
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> - implement GC as an allocator
>

This is a nice list, however I'd like to point out that not all 
of these need to be language features.
Nullable already exists in Phobos: 
https://dlang.org/library/std/typecons/nullable.html
You might say it should be a language feature, but I nullable 
value-types are a bit weird—they can be a value that *isn't a 
value*.
Pattern matching can be done in various ways, and the same to 
some extent with tuples.

Perhaps a fork of Phobos that's more community-driven would be 
good for the language?