What are the worst parts of D?

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 14:55:38 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>
> TDPL was an absolutely awesome book because it expained "why?" 
> as opposed to "how?". Such insight into language authors 
> rationale is incredibly helpful for long-term contribution. 
> Unfortunately, it didn't cover all parts of the language and 
> many new things has been added since it was out.
>

I would also add that it's scaring not having seen a single 
comment of Andrej here:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3998

> Right now I have no idea where the development is headed and 
> what to expect from next few releases. I am not speaking about 
> wiki.dlang.org/Agenda but about bigger picture. Unexpected 
> focus on C++ support, thread about killing auto-decoding, 
> recent ref counting proposal - all this stuff comes from 
> language authors but does not feel like a strategic additions. 
> It feels like yet another random contribution, no different 
> from contribution/idea of any other D user.

+1 on all.


> I am disturbed when Andrei comes with proposal that possibly 
> affects whole damn Phobos (memeory management flags) and asks 
> to trust his experience and authority on topic while rejecting 
> patterns that are confirmed to be working well in real 
> production projects. Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt Andrei 
> authority on memory management topic (it is miles ahead of mine 
> at the very least) but I simply don't believe any living person 
> in this world can design such big change from scratch without 
> some extended feedback from real deployed projects.

+1000

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/Paolo