Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 07:23:57 UTC, Chris wrote:

>> Seriously, people need to get over the fantasy that they can 
>> just use Unicode without understanding how Unicode works.  
>> Most of the time, you can get the illusion that it's working, 
>> but actually 99% of the time the code is actually wrong and 
>> will do the wrong thing when given an unexpected (but still 
>> valid) Unicode string.

> Is it asking too much to ask for `string` (not `dstring` or 
> `wstring`) to behave as most people would expect it to behave 
> in 2018 - and not like Python 2 from days of yore?

I agree with Chris.

The boat is sailed, so D2 should just go full throttle with the 
original design and auto decode to graphemes, regardless of the 
performance.