Does D have too many features?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-04-28 23:42, Peter Alexander wrote:

> Here's my list:
>
> - Properties. They add no value and just start pointless discussions
> about what should and shouldn't be a property.
>
> - UFCS. It's just sugar, but adds complexity.
>
> - const/immutable/inout/shared/pure. These add massive complexity to the
> language for little (IMO) benefit. When I do multi-threading, I usually
> have to resort to casting. Maybe these will improve with time.
>
> - opDispatch. I think it just promotes sloppy, obfuscated code for minor
> syntactical benefit. Member access through pointers should require ->
> like in C++ so that you can overload it for smart pointer/reference ADTs.
>
> That's all I can think of for now.

I love all these features beside the attributes.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg