What features of D you would not miss?

[ryuukk_]

On Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 19:04:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 01:18:30PM +0000, bauss via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 12:19:28 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>> > On Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 11:24:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> > > alias uint = u32;
>> > 
>> > You have then to import the module everywhere, wich makes 
>> > the feature i want a painful nightmare
>> 
>> Could be added to the runtime module and then simply over a 
>> couple years the aliases will be deprecated.
>
> That still requires basically *every single D project on the 
> planet* to be rewritten to the new type names over the 
> deprecation period.
>
> Not practical.
>
> And seriously, guys, these are just *arbitrary names* for 
> built-in types. At the cost of wholesale breakage of all 
> existing code? Bikeshedding at its finest. This is DOA.
>
>
> T

It could be kept as legacy for C compatibility, and new code 
could naturally transition to the new types whenever they are 
ready

I'm not a language dev, so i don't understand the implications of 
such features

I don't see how it's bikeshedding, it brings consistence for 
primitives

What's gonna be the name after `cent`? when other modern 
languages will have `uint256`, we will be left alone in the dark 
with inconsistencies