Does D have too many features?

[David Nadlinger]

On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 12:26:13 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 18:48:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> What's your list?
>
> My personal list of features I could easily live without – 
> some of these might be controversial, but yes, I have written 
> non-trivial amounts of code in both D1 and D2:

What I forgot to mention:
  - VersionCondition: Just provide a mechanism to map command line 
flags to constants, probably in a magic »version« namespace, 
and use static if (e.g. »version (Foo)« -> »static if 
(version.Foo)«, »version (unittest)« -> »static if 
(unittest)«).

  - DebugCondition: Hardly used in practice, at least not in ways 
that couldn't easily be replaced with a static if (resp. 
version). It is a frequent source of confusion for newcomers that 
-debug is orthogonal to -O/-release, and I'm not too fond of the 
purity »escape hatch« built in (why not just use casts in those 
rare cases?).

David