Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Q. Schroll]

On Tuesday, 12 October 2021 at 21:50:11 UTC, surlymoor wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 October 2021 at 21:38:48 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> - .init
>
> Is the issue default initialization or that the property is 
> named `init`?

The fact that the default value of a type `T` is `T.init` and 
`init` isn't even a keyword leading to all the problems it has, 
when it could have been `default(T)` is really embarrassing.