does D already have too many language features ?

[aliak]

On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 19:35:52 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2019-04-08 13:22, Atila Neves wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> In my opinion quite a few highly specialized features that are 
> far less used the can either be removed or generalized. For 
> example, foreach_reverse. Do we really need that built into the 
> language? Or the foreach range statement. The range part, i.e. 
> 1..10, could be a literal for a numeric range that works 
> everywhere and not just a special syntax that works in foreach 
> statements and slices.

It'd be really cool if dmd could generate a "usage report" and 
ask the user if it could send it off to some dlang-controlled 
server so we could gather statistics on which features are seen  
by the compiler.