What are the worst parts of D?

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 14:29:06 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> […] and a lack of attention paid to tightening up what we've 
> already got and deprecating old stuff that no one wants any 
> more.

This. The hypocritical fear of making breaking changes (the fact 
that not all of them are bad has been brought up over and over 
again by some of the corporate users) is crippling us, making D a 
much more cluttered language than necessary.

Seriously, once somebody comes up with an automatic fixup tool, 
there is hardly any generic argument left against language 
changes. Sure, there will always be some cases where manual 
intervention is still required, such as with string mixins. But 
unless we have lost hope that the D community is still to grow 
significantly, I don't see why the burden of proof should 
automatically lie on the side of those in favor of cleaning up 
cruft and semantical quirks.

Most D code is still to be written.

David