Does D have too many features?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
news:mailman.67.1335651468.24740.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:12:38PM +0200, SomeDude wrote:
>> On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 20:59:48 UTC, q66 wrote:
>> >
>> >This kind of attitude "we need big fat bullshit like Java and
>> >heavy use of OO and idioms and EH and all that other crap" is
>> >broken and false. And you have no way to prove that Python for
>> >example wouldn't scale for large projects; its main fault is that
>> >the default implementation is rather slow, but it's not pretty
>> >much missing anything required for a large project.
>>
>> Python has two big drawbacks for large projects:
>> - it's too slow
>> - it's a dynamically-typed language
>>
>> The fact that it's flexible is because it uses duck typing, and
>> AFAIK you can't do duck typing in a statically typed language.
>> So it's cool for small programs, but it can't handle large ones
>> because it's not statically typed. And this opinion doesn't come
>> just out of thin air, I speak from my own professional experience.
>
> Who says D doesn't have duck-typing?
>

Yea, templated code is structurally-typed (duck-typed) by default. Not a big 
fan of that personally, but I can live with it, and D is awesome enough that 
you can build nominal-typing out of it: 
http://www.semitwist.com/articles/EfficientAndFlexible/MultiplePages/Page5/