What are (were) the most difficult parts of D?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 06:29:54PM +0000, Adam D Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> Yeah, I used to be pro-TLS by default, then got bit by it several
> times and moved to the fence, and now I'm anti.
> 
> Data races aren't actually prevented by it (maybe forcing you to
> specify shared or tls would at least get you think about it though)
> and lots of things mysteriously fail if you forget about it.
> 
> You can lock the variable and everything and it still null cuz it was
> tls the whole time. Oops.
> 
> This a case where I think forcing explitness would be better than
> either default, but failing that, tls by default is the more-bad
> choice.

Personally I prefer avoiding globals at all. :-P  But OK, sometimes you
can't work around it (or it'd be too onerous).  I guess maybe that's why
I haven't been bitten by TLS so far. Hardly ever use it. :-D


T

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