Proof of concept for v2 - NO duplication, NO `static if` hell, NO difficulty with interoperability

[harakim]

On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 16:11:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 11/2/21 2:53 AM, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
>> On Sunday, 31 October 2021 at 01:59:38 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8309
>>>
>>> Destroy!
>> 
>> I said it before
>> 
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/wmqipfssxluzohrhxryy@forum.dlang.org
>> 
>> I say it again, this is NOT a technical problem this is a 
>> management and leadership problem.
>> 
>> Destroyed!
>
> I agree with most of your points and definitely love the 
> enthusiasm. But it seems to me you are looking at a one-off 
> revolution and what we must define is a reproducible process. 
> One does not exclude the other.

I'm curious if you could define the problem and, as a forum, we 
could look at other major languages to see how they solved it. 
Example languages: Python2/3, C/C++, Java, C#, Perl, PHP, Go, 
Javscript/Typescript, Fortran, COBOL, Ada, and Ruby.

The solution seems to be to remove a language feature that is now 
obsolete, but only from the standard library. Is that correct? 
What problems is having this auto-decoding feature causing?