Why is D unpopular?

Dr Machine Code jckj33 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 21:42:44 UTC 2021


On Sunday, 14 November 2021 at 21:28:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 November 2021 at 03:19:37 UTC, forkit wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Features like ```@trusted``` only makes sense if the invariants 
> (rules) of the type system are easy to reason about, otherwise 
> it becomes impossible for most programmers to write correct 
> ```@trusted``` code.
>
> Both C++ and D have unnecessary complexity, meaning that the 
> complexity does not add power, it is basically just relics of 
> the past. C++ cannot fix this, because of critical mass. It is 
> a mistake for D to follow the same recipe…

what example of that D's complexity?


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