phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 23:50:43 UTC, Josphe Brigmo 
wrote:
> [...]

D is generally described as a system programming language. There 
is value in favoring a simple and obvious implementation ("do 
what I say") over going out of one's way to make usage simpler 
("do what I mean"). The tradeoff is performance and complexity. 
Performance is generally an important factor for users of system 
programming languages, and complexity is a source of unforeseen 
problems in non-trivial use cases.

Consider, for example, how integers are treated in D and Python. 
D's integers are fixed-length and roll over on overflow. Python 
integers are bigints, which makes them slower, but can handle 
numbers of any size.

 From your posts, it sounds like you're looking for a programming 
language closer to Python than to D.