Does D have too many features?

[Era Scarecrow]

>> My list:
>> * I'd start with getting rid of foreach completely. (not just 
>> foreach_reverse).

> C++ was criticized for a long time for NOT having foreach in 
> the language. Now they have 
> http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html#for. Also people 
> were so desperate to gave it that even this 
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/doc/html/foreach.html was 
> considered a nice addition to boost (and still part of it).
>
> Obviously somehow you want to go into the opposite direction. 
> Beats me.

  If it simplifies code, makes it easier, and is more consistent, 
having it is better than not having it. Like walter said in one 
of the recent videos (going native 2012) regarding having an 
assembler in a language: 'When you need it, you got to have it'. 
True most features can be re-written as work arounds, but if you 
don't have to then why insist on it?

  Backtracking by removing key features which make the language 
pleasant may throw us back into the C and C++ days. Yes you can 
do full memory management yourself, and use pointers and pass 
it's size to functions. We have fat pointers, so why insist on 
backtracking? At the worst case if it isn't breaking the language 
leave it alone. If you have good reasons for it, explain them in 
detail. At best those of us who know better will laugh and move 
on.