What are the worst parts of D?

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 15:13:59 UTC, Nicolas F. wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 12:39:23 UTC, Tofu Ninja 
> wrote:
>
>> What do you think are the worst parts of D?
>
> The fact that its community, when faced with the question "What 
> do you think are the worst parts of D?", will readily have a 35 
> page verbal fistfight over what the worst parts of D are.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that discussion is happening 
> about such things, but I think it may be better to have it in a 
> more structured manner in the future, and with a little less 
> emotional investment.

Heh, I think such self-criticism by the community is great, for 
example, I loved that I recently stumbled across this page on the 
wiki:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Language_issues

How many other languages can boast such a page of problems on 
their own wiki? :) Thanks to Vlad and Mike for writing it.

People in this thread are emotional because they care: I don't 
think it's gone overboard given the real concerns they're 
stating.  When the D community starts hiding its problems and 
stops critiquing its own efforts, sometimes passionately if 
that's what you truly feel, is when it starts going downhill.