food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

[aberba]

On Thursday, 25 April 2019 at 23:40:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:49:47PM +0000, Terry Arkson via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 02:29:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> > On 4/11/2019 4:24 PM, Mike Franklin wrote:
> [...]
>> > > Creating functions like `isOdd` or 
>> > > `GetLeastSignificantBit` help convey intent without having 
>> > > to supplement code with comments.

Probably one reason D is not gaining much adoption (at least for 
beginners) is because the maintainers are so smart that they 
ignore some basic (or less cognitive load) details.

Like functions that might appeal to beginners...but Andre and 
Walter overlook them...thinking its so obvious (in their 
experience). If true, they'll have problem teaching beginners 
programming.

Another example is Ali's book, may seem normal to someone with 
some programming experience but definitely not a beginner's 
book...I have personally seen that with some folks.