The current status of D?

[Mehrdad]

... another bug with inout():

     import std.stdio;
     //Error: inout on parameter means inout must be on return type as 
well  (???)
     class C { inout(C) foo() inout { writeln(this); return this; } }
     void main() { }

IMHO, 'inout' is fundamentally flawed: it should not act like a type 
constructor at all, because that makes no sense. But it seems to be what 
it's doing here...


So no, I wasn't joking -- getting around these problems gets pretty 
annoying (getting rid of one causes another), as trivial as you may make 
them out to be. I love D's features as well, but if I have to spend a 
nontrivial amount of time working around the D compiler, then I probably 
wouldn't use the D compiler at all.