What are the worst parts of D?

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 04:37:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> So basically, we're paying (1) lower performance, (2)  
> non-random access
> for strings, (3) subtle distinction between index and count and 
> other
> such gotchas, and (4) tons of special-cased Phobos code with the
> associated maintenance costs, all for incomplete Unicode 
> correctness.
> Doesn't seem like the benefit measures up to the cost. :-(

Yep.  When I use algorithms on strings in D, I always cast them 
to ubyte[].  Which is a poor solution.