Does D have too many features?

SomeDude lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Sat Apr 28 12:57:07 PDT 2012


On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 19:23:00 UTC, q66 wrote:
>
> - AAs integrated in the language; you barely ever use AA 
> literals and having them purely in Phobos would help get rid of 
> the runtime fat, as well as better implementations
> - Phobos is too fat - it needs to shrink to just a few core 
> modules, others being distributed via some system like CPAN for 
> Perl
> - Properties - they're kinda broken at this point and the value 
> is questionable
> - @trusted @system
> - Exception handling - a lot of runtime, questionable value
> - Versions - not redundant, but needs a better system (with 
> AND/OR, possibility of de-versioning, the assignment op to set 
> versions is kinda bad)
>
> I think I would find some more, but these are the ones I can 
> recall now.

I disagree with every single point here.


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