Preventing .init for Archive struct, Programming in D, page 295

[Brother Bill]

On Friday, 12 September 2025 at 21:46:51 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Friday, 12 September 2025 at 20:10:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Phobos code was legendary for being a standard library that 
>> didn't make your head hurt when you read it. (If you've ever 
>> tried reading the source code for Glibc, or the standard 
>> library for almost any other language, really, you'll know 
>> what I mean.)  It was exemplary of how D code ought to be 
>> written.  It probably still is today to some extent, though 
>> sadly over the years it has fallen into the mud and come out 
>> hairy on multiple occasions, so it ain't as pretty as it used 
>> to be anymore.)
>
>> It probably still is today to some extent
>
> *loud silence*
>
> Its probably time to raise some standards

Is it time to consider D 3.x.x, that takes the best of D, 
discards the mistakes, the mud and the hair, so most well written 
D 2.x.x programs still work?

Should it learn lessons from Rust, Zig, etc.

Should D follow Gleam, an Erlang variant in having functional 
programming with pattern matching, deconstruction, etc?

And take from Zig multiple ways to allocate memory?