Does D have too many features?

[SomeDude]

On Monday, 30 April 2012 at 19:24:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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> This certainly seems to have become the biggest thread ever!

What did you expect, really ? That people would say "nothing, the 
language is perfect" ? :D

When I saw your question, I immediately thought "damn, Walter is 
starting a troll thread for fun, it's gonna be a huge waste of 
time". :D

But then I changed my mind, because what I saw, - and that's what 
I expected actually -, is that almost everybody had a different 
list from other people. Which is in fact good, because that means 
that everybody uses his own subset of the language for his own 
use, and although there is a common ground, the union of all 
subsets seems to pretty much fill the "design space" of the 
language.

In the end, very few "features" seem to be universally disdained 
(the comma operator seems to come regularly, though, but even 
that one has supporters). Which means to me that in terms of 
overall design, the language is not in a bad shape at all.
So the design phase seems almost complete. The real effort now 
must be to finish the implementation, and build a full productive 
ecosystem. And I suppose we are still far from that goal.