Why is D unpopular

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 14 June 2022 at 06:49:59 UTC, bauss wrote:

> People also completely misunderstand what we're asking for.

No. No we do not. We understand *exactly* what you are asking for.


>
> I really don't understand why people are so much against it 
> when it can be added without interfering with existing code, 
> but it surely will help.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't think it adds *any* 
benefit to the language whatsoever. I have read all of the 
arguments for it and I don't find any of them compelling enough 
that the feature would bring significant advantage over putting 
classes with "strictly private" members in their own modules.

But again, I'm just a guy expressing his opinion. Walter and 
Atila are the ones you need to convince.

Talking about it endlessly in the forums has zero chance of 
getting the feature in. You guys posting about it in every other 
thread apparently feel strongly about it, so write a DIP. Get 
feedback from others who support it and try to craft a rationale 
that Walter and Atila will find compelling enough to accept 
(i.e., show that the benefit outweighs the added cost in 
maintenance and language complexity, why the arguments against it 
are wrong, etc.).

Once you submit it and it's had enough time in Draft Review that 
you're satisfied with it, I'll even give it priority over any 
other DIPs in the queue.