does D already have too many language features ?

zeno56 sharmkapil989 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 08:36:01 UTC 2022


On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 09:46:06 UTC, adam77 wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I started using D as an alternative to Java, what attracted me 
> to D was the robust memory management (including the way arrays 
> are handled), and interoperability with C (specifically 
> libraries) so far so good, but almost every language out there 
> (maybe with the exception of C) seems the eschew language 
> stability in favour of adopting whatever the latest fad is in 
> programming languages features. I see on forums for a number of 
> languages how features like lambda's or auto properties are 
> essential to their language or if they are missing some feature 
> how its a major detriment to the language. I sometimes wonder 
> how a Turing machine could ever manage...
>
> [...]

See how many D users shout if you recommend particular features 
to delete. There will always be zealous users of almost every 
feature.


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