Is D painted into a corner?

[monkyyy]

On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 18:47:19 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:

> Without starting a flame war,

You already started it, by personally verifying the old book, you 
showed several regressions. Great work btw.

> It seems like 'templates' are the 'Achilles heel' of D.
>
> has D gotten to the point where ordinary mortals have 
> difficulty coding in D with 'templates' such as 'cycle' 
> requiring rewrites into 'myCycle'?

Phoboes isnt all of d; templates are **the** feature on offer. 
You can leave safetyism at any time, it doesn't matter that the 
cia wants you to use rust, or that society's whats to "prevent 
every nuclear death" while still mining coal. You can take a walk 
during a thunder storm or mimik my style of code, or let a child 
play outside at **any** time.

You will be called stupid or insane all the time, but when its 
implied that safety is the highest moral standard without any 
justification you can just say "nah".

> Is D a general purpose language, suitable for Application 
> Programming, or does it have a more limited scope?

Safetyism is also over in c++ to some degree and its a founding 
principal of rust; the fact I could give you 10 lines to define 
cycle of simple code is a virtue.