Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, June 07, 2016 20:52:15 Dave via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 20:48:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 07, 2016 18:33:01 Dave via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >> [...]
> >
> > IMHO, it's bad practice to mass apply attributes with labels or
> > blocks. It's far too easy to accidentally mark a function with
> > an attribute that you didn't mean to, and it makes it way
> > harder to figure out which attributes actually apply to a
> > function. And when you add templates into the mix, applying
> > attributes en masse doesn't work anyway, because pretty much
> > the only time that you want to mark a template function with an
> > attribute is when the template arguments have nothing to do
> > with whether the attribute is appropriate or not.
> >
> > [...]
>
> So we should not follow the advice of Walter?

If he's arguing that you should slap an attribute on the top of your
module to apply to everything, then no, I don't think that we should follow
his advice. He's a very smart guy, but he's not always right. And in my
experience, mass applying attributes is a mistake.

- Jonathan M Davis