named arguments, string interpolation, please stop.

[JN]

On Friday, 12 January 2024 at 01:21:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> Now instead of one library that works for all D code, you have 
> libraries that use the GC so they're incompatible with betterC 
> and @nogc projects, libraries that don't use GC but still use 
> some D feature not in betterC, so the betterC people are left 
> out, then you have @nogc libraries that the GC crowd wouldn't 
> use because it requires you to pass allocators and all the rest 
> of the spam associated with manual memory management.

I wonder how many people actually willingly use betterC. I feel 
like WASM is the main usecase for betterC, and if WASM worked in 
"normal D mode" betterC would mostly fade into obscurity for 
special cases when you need to interop with existing C code.