Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

monkyyy crazymonkyyy at gmail.com
Sat Oct 30 23:33:12 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 16:48:12 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 21:41:45 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>>> * Worst features implemented in a non-toy language
>>
>> * Embedding js in an html document.
>>
>> * adding objects to an existing language
>>
>>> * Worst features (in your opinion) in D
>>
>> * nontrivial namespace collisions when importing std
>>
>> * int promotion
>>
>> * verbose enums
>>
>> * contracts and all the cute ideas expanding a template header 
>> to affect the matching
>>
>> * sword of damocles of safe by default or who knows what 
>> koolaid being enabled one day
>
> Interesting. What is it about safe by default that would worry 
> you?

verbosity


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list