Does D have too many features?

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 18:48:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei and I had a fun discussion last night about this 
> question. The idea was which features in D are redundant and/or 
> do not add significant value?
>
> A couple already agreed upon ones are typedef and the cfloat, 
> cdouble and creal types.
>
> What's your list?

Here's my list:

- Properties. They add no value and just start pointless 
discussions about what should and shouldn't be a property.

- UFCS. It's just sugar, but adds complexity.

- const/immutable/inout/shared/pure. These add massive complexity 
to the language for little (IMO) benefit. When I do 
multi-threading, I usually have to resort to casting. Maybe these 
will improve with time.

- opDispatch. I think it just promotes sloppy, obfuscated code 
for minor syntactical benefit. Member access through pointers 
should require -> like in C++ so that you can overload it for 
smart pointer/reference ADTs.

That's all I can think of for now.