Is D overly complex?

[Bradley Chatha]

On Tuesday, 5 August 2025 at 12:32:53 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
> I am in my learning curve for D as an experienced developer.
> What has attracted me to D is the combination of features:
> Design by Contract, Functional Programming, OOP, and more.

This is both one of the strong and weak points of D: It gives you 
a ton of flexibility and lets you model code in a fairly 
free-form way, unlike languages like Go where variety between 
codebases is very minimalised.

> It would be good to have a "style" document that showed the 
> "best practices" and "Do's and Don'ts" of good D programming.

There's things like The D Style guide 
(https://dlang.org/dstyle.html) which is used for Phobos, and 
there's the slightly crusty D Idioms list 
(https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/) going over a bunch of misc 
stuff.

I initially had more to say, but monkyyy's answer kind of eludes 
to it - there's many different ways to use D (half baked or not) 
to the point nothing can truly work together in exact harmony.