Plan for D

[JN]

On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 20:06:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
> That's true, the best solution is to reduce the feature set and 
> improve metaprogramming, but nobody wants to see features 
> removed and new features are being cheered on, so D is and is 
> likely to stay a growing language experiment, which is 
> perfectly ok by me as a D hobbyist
> ... It is what the process is making it to be, which is more 
> one of growth than metamorphosis.

"replace features with metaprogramming" comes with a cost. When 
templates break, the error messages are rough enough already. 
Also, compilation time will go up as the templates get expanded 
over and over.

Also, high risk of "curse of Lisp" kicking in.