D is dead

[Trass3r]

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 23:27:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Back to throwing constructors.
>
> 1) They are expensive, adding considerable hidden bloat in the 
> form of finally blocks, one for each constructing field. These 
> unwinding frames defeat optimization. The concept of "zero-cost 
> exception handling" is a bad joke. (Even Chandler Carruth 
> stated that the LLVM basically gives up trying to optimize in 
> the presence of exception handlers.) Herb Sutter has a recent 
> paper out proposing an alternative, completely different, error 
> handling scheme for C++ because of this issue.

Are you referring to http://wg21.link/P0709 ?