Which language futures make D overcompicated?

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 16:05:52 UTC, Ralph Doncaster wrote:

> It might be clear and simple to you, but it's not to me.  And 
> I'm a rather advanced developer.
> While there are lots of things I like about D compared to C++ 
> such as getting rid of #include hell, there's too many "messy" 
> things and the learning curve is too steep for me to consider 
> suggesting it for any consulting projects.  I think it could've 
> been better if there was more focus on keeping the language 
> (and standard library) clean and simple instead of making it 
> more like a swiss army knife.

When I read things like that page, I think "Haskell's not that 
bad".

So far a strategy that has worked for me is to ignore most of 
that stuff. Must be my C background.