Is D really that bad?

[Max Samukha]

On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 21:17:22 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

> Those 16+ million developers are not the designers of 
> Javascript; they just use it. The reason Javascript has 
> private-to-class is because other languages had that before 
> Javascript was created in 1995.
>
> Ali

The millions of lemmings might be right in this case. There seems 
to be no good reason to think module-level is superior to 
class-level. It is definitely surprising and annoying to a lot of 
programmers coming from class-based OOP languages.