D's flaws

[nkm1]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 13:34:57 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 24/08/18 13:43, nkm1 wrote:
>> 
>> I think Walter was talking more about "scope (failure) 
>> destroy(this)" at the top of all your structs? I don't know if 
>> it has some gotchas, though (as I don't use RAII in D...).
>> 
>
> No, unlike what I suggest, that doesn't work without carefully 
> reviewing every single place you put it to see whether the 
> constructor actually supports destructing a partially 
> constructed object.
>
> Shachar

So I guess you're saying you also use "= void" as default 
initializer for some things. Otherwise, it's already a 
requirement that all default-initialized things should be 
destructible...
Yeah, I do agree that these kinds of things are not very well 
supported by D. I do not agree that it means the language is 
doomed (from a techincal standpoint, at least). Moving in a more 
Java-esque direction ("Fast like C++ but with good GC" (so, in 
reality, slower than C++ but faster than JVM)) would be a 
reasonable strategy for D. Seems like it's not going to happen, 
though.