Is it time for D 3.0?

[krzaq]

On Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 20:22:14 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 20:08:18 UTC, krzaq wrote:
>> 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.
>
> D did standardize, there's no question as to size in D as it is 
> now.

I'm not disputing that. I'm saying that D standarized the wrong 
names. Rust hit the bullseye, while C/C++ is somewhere in the 
middle. And the alias argument is IMO weak because of it being 
non-standard.