Is it time for D 3.0?

[Kaitlyn Emmons]

On Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 20:08:18 UTC, krzaq wrote:
>> In this case wouldn't it be better to rename them to shorter 
>> u8, i8 .. u64, i64 and f32 .. f64. This is actually not a 
>> breaking change and we can implement it today if we want to 
>> with the old type names still there. Also, you can make 
>> whatever alias you want.
>
> I would love that. This is one of the things that Rust got 100% 
> right.
>
> I know you can make whatever alias you want, but the point is 
> that it's not universally used.  Standarization is important, 
> that's why I'd use the fugly C names in C/C++ even though I 
> could alias them away.

+1 i like the short names