What are the worst parts of D?

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 14:25:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:47:22PM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 25/09/14 08:39, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> >But even then, I *did* run into the problem of 
>> >non-reproducible
>> >builds with dmd. So there's still a blemish there. :-P  Makes 
>> >me want
>> >to alias `make` to `make clean; make` just for this alone
>> 
>> I don't think the "clean" action can be completely excluded. I
>> recently tried to build a project, without running "clean", 
>> and got
>> some unexpected errors. Then I remembered I had just installed 
>> a new
>> version of the compiler.
> [...]
>
> That's the hallmark of make-based projects. SCons projects, 
> OTOH, almost
> never needs to do that (except if you totally screwed up your 
> SCons
> scripts). The super-complicated SCons script that I described 
> in another
> post? I don't even remember that last *year* when I had to do 
> the
> equivalent of a clean. I've been updating, branching, merging 
> the
> workspace for years now, and it Just Builds -- correctly at 
> that.

+1. I remember the days where I dealt with hand-written makefiles 
and running "make clean" just to be sure. I don't miss them.

If you ever _need_ to type "make clean" then the build system is 
broken. Simple as. It's analogous to deleting the object file to 
make sure the compiler does its job properly.

Atila