Which language futures make D overcompicated?

[Atila Neves]

On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 13:10:16 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 08:27:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> (Abscissa) wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
> I'm missing too the yield return and await syntax in D every 
> time. In my current asp.net project I counted around 800 await 
> calls. I don't even imagine how difficult should be to 
> translate this in D style.
>
> But back to the subject:
> - pure @safe nothrow @nogc
> - auto const ref
> - __ctfe is a variable
> - traits as a library solution;
> - alias this;
> - calling conventions are a best kept secret.
> - everything is a range. If not, we will rangify it. 
> Autodecoded eventually.
> - no dedicated syntax sugar for ranges;
> - no dedicated syntax sugar for coroutines;
> - no dedicated syntax sugar for events;
> - GC is evil. OO is outdated.
> - last integer promotion rules.
>
>
> And not a language feature but I hate dub. Just saying.

The GC is awesome, and trivially avoided. And once it is, 
programs crash and remind me of programming in C and C++ in the 
90s.

At least LDC has address sanitizer now.

Atila