Does D have too many features?

[SomeDude]

On Monday, 30 April 2012 at 18:09:32 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>
>  Then perhaps the comma operator can be pushed to the 
> 'depreciated' list for a while; If it breaks anything big and 
> important, you can still compile it. After a while we can see 
> if it should be kept or removed. I think that's the best 
> approach all things considered.
>
>  Personally, I have yet to really use it outside of a 
> for/foreach statement. On the other hand if it breaks 
> something, generally it will become quite clear where in few 
> the few places and require you to fix and update it before 
> moving on.

What we need is a "style guide", ala Scott Meyer, i.e try to find 
D idioms, how to write good code, what to avoid. Because even 
though it's harder to write bad code in D than in C++, it's 
always possible to write code with low performance, or be bitten 
by some traps.

Here is an example: 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.9.1335539605.24740.digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com