Remember the Vasa! by Bjarne Stroustrup

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 17:40:39 UTC, Tony wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 11:31:53 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 05:11:27 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
>> wrote:
>>> D is probably at the edge of what I can tollerate 
>>> complexity-wise. And we’ll get to simplify a few things soon 
>>> I believe.
>>
>> Within D, there is a bit smaller and cleaner language 
>> struggling to get out!
>
> Seems like it could be broken into two languages, one a garbage 
> collected object-oriented language. The other, C with 
> metaprogramming and other "betterC" type stuff.

I don't think it's difficult to do that yourself. There's no need 
to have a formal split. One example is that it's really nice to 
have the GC available for part of the program and avoid it for 
another part. @nogc gives you a guarantee. Different variants of 
the language are a special case of this that is equivalent to 
annotating the entire program to restrict behavior. That's rarely 
desirable.