does D already have too many language features ?

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On Thursday, 11 April 2019 at 14:18:16 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> Do you know this science project https://github.com/biod? The 
> develops really like the D Programming Language. 
> (https://github.com/biod/sambamba/issues/389#issuecomment-468475615)

I do now, thanks. You should be aware that there are similar 
projects, not just in bioinformatics, where Rust is the language 
of choice. That doesn't make me think Rust is well suited for 
data science. As I said earlier, I now think of Julia as my 
preferred language for that set of tasks; that was the focus of 
its design. My sense is that D was originally going to be a 
better C++ but that that didn't pan out for a number of reasons. 
Of the current alternatives to C++, Rust appears to have the most 
traction and momentum, but is still a very long ways from being a 
serious competitor.

Now that there seems to be a desire from on high to revisit some 
D issues and change things, maybe D will gain in popularity, but 
for what I would use D for, fewer features would make a better 
language IMO.