memory management and the standard library

[Olivier FAURE]

On Thursday, 14 March 2019 at 21:32:21 UTC, JN wrote:
> Perhaps rather than implementing (and supporting! each feature 
> has to work well with other features which adds support 
> overhead) such features, it'd be more useful to add features 
> like struct initialization outside of assginments, which feels 
> to me like a much nicer improvement to the language.

The problem when designing a language, is that *everyone* says 
"Stop wasting your time maintaining [feature I don't use], nobody 
cares about it. You should implement [feature that I want] 
instead, the language would be more popular that way!", but 
nobody can agree on which features are the "good" ones.

Eg, some people will say that -betterC is almost useless and we 
should stop worrying about it, while other people would stop 
using D if it didn't have that flag.