D community's view on syntactic sugar

[aberba]

On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 07:14:11 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On Monday, 18 June 2018 at 20:54:22 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> On Saturday, 16 June 2018 at 08:39:07 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
>> wrote:
>>> On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 23:04:40 UTC, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote:
>>>> For someone coming from a C# background there is some 
>>>> seemingly simple syntactic sugar missing from D.
>>>>
>
> Oh kid. I tried all of that and more. Like 4 years ago. Pardon 
> for my temper but no I know what I’m talking about and it’s not 
> “I tried it for a week and now I see async is nice”.
>
> To hell with that!
> I have actually seen and worked (not directly) on code **cking 
> does make async stack traces tolerable (google for causal stack 
> traces, Dart).
>
> Again sorry to hurt your feelings but unless I see deep 
> technical good reason to go for async, I’ll die fighting 
> against it. Let’s bot cargocult for once, especially 
> considering the interplay with just about any bloody language 
> feature to get “shugar”.
>
> P.S. Damn, it really pusses me off. No offence was meant.
No offense taken. I feel your rage...ha ha. What happened between 
you and the past where JavaScript was involved?
>
> —
> Dmitry Olshansky