Verbosity in D

[jfondren]

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 16:01:08 UTC, pascal111 wrote:
> It's clear by working with D that it has the same bad point 
> like Pascal language; the "verbosity". Is there any plans in 
> future to make some shorthanded techniques that clean verbosity 
> from D?

That's not clear to me at all, and your Pascal example about a 
feature that C and D both have, that doesn't help either. Post 
some code that seems particularly verbose to you. I think 
'library code' tends to grow attributes like mushrooms, and that 
D gets longer when you try to avoid the GC, but casual use of D 
isn't more verbose than scripting languages. With competitors 
like Rust and C++ Go and and Zig, D usually wins pretty 
significantly in this respect. The only consistently less verbose 
language in this space is Nim, IMO.

With that said, dmd previews =in and =shortenedMethods both allow 
shorter expressions in D. And there are some C++ (and even C) 
convenience features that D doesn't have, like destructuring 
binds, or doesn't like, like anonymous struct literals with named 
fields.