What are the worst parts of D?

Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 25 21:26:48 PDT 2014


"Iain Buclaw"  wrote in message news:dqgkcmdmxekzqpvfbcim at forum.dlang.org...

On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 12:39:23 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>
> What do you think are the worst parts of D?
>

> 1) D Inline Assembler.

Relying on the system assembler sucks too.

> 7) Interfacing with C++
> - A new set of features that is danger of falling into the same "let's get 
> it working" pit.  First warning sign was C++ template mangling, then DMD 
> gave up on mangling D 'long' in any predictable way.  It's all been 
> downhill from there.

C++ template mangling is fine.  'long' mangling is messy, but it's better 
than what was there before.

> 8) Real
> - What a pain.

Oh yeah.  D's one variable-sized type. 



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