What are the prominent downsides of the D programming language?

Tue Sep 29 14:25:06 UTC 2020

On Tuesday, 29 September 2020 at 14:14:34 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> If you decide to change your type from e.g. int to long, then 
> you don't need to go edit all the places you declared things.

Yes, when are certain you understand the code, but it can 
sometimes prevent understanding. E.g. if th hidden type is some 
form of ownership then it is very helpful to see the explicit 
type. Of course an IDE can help here... Depends on the 
setup/project I guess.