What features of D you would not miss?
Sergey
kornburn at yandex.ru
Thu Sep 15 11:15:21 UTC 2022
On Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 08:40:22 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 05:58:53 UTC, Walter Bright
> wrote (on the thread about binary literals):
>> On 9/13/2022 7:56 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 05:58:53 UTC, Walter Bright
>> wrote:
>>> People often complain that D has too many features. What
>>> features would you say are not worth it?
>>
>> ImportC, -betterC, @nogc, nothrow, @live. These things don't
>> even *work* on their own terms, and they continue to have
>> additional downstream effects over several parts of D and the
>> ecosystem. Massive complication for little benefit.
>>
>> If I had to pick at gunpoint an established language feature
>> to remove, it would be betterC. But I can't see any features
>> I'd *want* to remove. D's features are pretty nice.
>>
>> -Steve
I’m pretty surprised that people mentioned betterC.. I expected
improvements and development of that part.
AFAIK it is the easiest way to use D in WebAssembly, also a lot
of great and high performant libs (like mir) working in betterC
mode only..
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