Is D painted into a corner?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 18:47:19 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
> It seems like 'templates' are the 'Achilles heel' of D.
>
> Without starting a flame war, has D gotten to the point where 
> ordinary mortals have difficulty coding in D with 'templates' 
> such as 'cycle' requiring rewrites into 'myCycle'?

What you ran into is a bug. Indeed, sometimes with generative 
code, if there is a bug in the checks, you get very weird stuff 
as a result, sometimes hard to decipher.

But the solution suggested by Monkyyy isn't a *requirement*. I 
would never suggest that the correct way to use phobos is to work 
around its bugs. Maybe as a stopgap, until the problem is fixed.

> Does D now require 'deep' memory into layers of history and 
> workarounds?

No. It's a bug. We fix it, and now the next person doesn't have 
the same error.

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

Yes it is as suitable as any major language that exists today. 
All languages have bugs. That doesn't negate their suitability 
for use.

-Steve