Possible solution to template bloat problem?

[Ramon]

I'm afraid the issue is bigger.

One major criterion, for instance, is the basic question how we 
attribute weights to the involved entities.

C had a clear background. There was a new system (PDP11) and a 
need to use it. Memory was little and strongly limited, the 
typical use was quite modest (considerably less than what we 
today have on our mobile phones), processor power and capability 
was very low and very expensive, etc.

This, ladies and gentleman, is quite simple not anymore and 
adequate approach.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not on the side of the other extreme 
("Who cares about processor time and memory"). But the world has 
very considerably changed and so has computing. Features that 
would have seemd miraculous in 1970 are low standard today and - 
very importantly - the whole world had very considerably gained 
in complexity.

If I need to programm a MPC430 or even an STM32F4, I'll use C, 
period. There *is* a solution for jobs with very tight 
constraints, we just don't need a new language for that.

If, however, I have to design and build a solution that works on 
different OSes incl. mobile phones and spans over a large network 
then I won't use C.

Furthermore, we have seen again and again how unreliable humans 
are at certain jobs. Just think "virus","buffer overflow" and a 
gazillion of other problems stemming from two reasons, a) lack of 
professionality and b) lack of perfection, where perfection is 
very much dependant on working tediously diligently and 
stubbornly (in other words, somethings that computers are *way* 
better at than humans).

Templates just don't cut it, period. Templates are 
ultra-yesteryear and proven to be troublesome, no matter how 
smartly you implement them. It's just not acceptable that a 
language in 2013 (in that regard) doesn't offer dimensionally 
more and better than what I could do with Brief or the like in 
1985.

So: Are D templates ugly loat? Yes, sure. Do I care? No, not at 
all. Why should I complain about D being unsatisfying as an 
editor?