Modern C++ Lamentations

[JN]

On Saturday, 29 December 2018 at 09:29:30 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> http://aras-p.info/blog/2018/12/28/Modern-C-Lamentations/
>
> Time to show off your leet D skilz and see how good we can do 
> it in D!

I don't know if D is a role model here, considering just 
importing std.regex adds three seconds to compile time - 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18378 .

Here's another take on language complexity, related to Rust - 
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/263429.html