does D already have too many language features ?

[Atila Neves]

On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 09:46:06 UTC, adam77 wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I started using D as an alternative to Java, what attracted me 
> to D was the robust memory management (including the way arrays 
> are handled), and interoperability with C (specifically 
> libraries) so far so good, but almost every language out there 
> (maybe with the exception of C) seems the eschew language 
> stability in favour of adopting whatever the latest fad is in 
> programming languages features. I see on forums for a number of 
> languages how features like lambda's or auto properties are 
> essential to their language or if they are missing some feature 
> how its a major detriment to the language. I sometimes wonder 
> how a Turing machine could ever manage...
>
> I'd be interested to hear other peoples opinion, does the 
> language have enough features? is it already overloaded with 
> features ?
>
> Any help will be appreciated!

I think it has too many features, but that's really easy to say 
in hindsight and without actually ever developing a language 
myself.

It's also hard to agree on what we'd cut out even if we had the 
code-breaking chance (which we don't). I'd do away with classes 
and OOP, but to call that divisise would be an understatement.