What are the worst parts of D?

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 21:03:53 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/25/2014 12:58 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:40:28PM -0700, Walter Bright via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On 9/25/2014 4:08 AM, Don wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> Ask yourself, if D had no users other than you, so that you 
>>>> break
>>>> *anything*, what would you remove? Make a wishlist, and then 
>>>> find out
>>>> what's possible.  Remember, when you did that before, we 
>>>> successfully
>>>> got rid of 'bit', and there was practically no complaint.
>>>
>>> Top of my list would be the auto-decoding behavior of
>>> std.array.front() on character arrays. Every time I'm faced 
>>> with that
>>> I want to throw a chair through the window.
>>
>> LOL... now I'm genuinely curious what's Andrei's comment on 
>> this. :-P
>> Last I heard, Andrei was against removing autodecoding.
>
> I have yet to completely convince Andrei that autodecoding is a 
> bad idea :-(

I think it should just refuse to work on char[], wchar[] and 
dchar[]. Instead, byCodeUnit, byCodePoint (which already exist) 
would be required. This way, users would need to make a conscious 
decision, and there would be no surprises and no negative 
performance impact.