Is Anything Holding you back?

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/02/2015 03:24 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/02/2015 09:11 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> On 02-Oct-2015 05:25, Yaser wrote:
>>> Are there any critical frameworks or libraries that are holding you back
>>> in fully investing in D? Obviously I think D is an awesome language, but
>>> some frameworks/libraries hold me back, wish I could do everything in D.
>>
>> My personal favorite (8+ years old OMG):
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238
>>
>> Makes me want to laugh every time we discuss "problems" of D. Bugs are
>> as usual at the top of problems in my book.
>
> I agree it's a hole in the module system, but it's not quite something
> that prevents work from being done.

It slows it down. The most annoying part of it is that it introduces 
clashes with private aliases introduced for disambiguation. I.e., the 
mechanism that most conveniently deals with ambiguous symbols is 
basically defunct because of spurious ambiguous symbol errors.