extern(C) names are being mangled; that's crazy, Walter says I'm crazy

[FeepingCreature]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 09:56:50 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On Wed., 24 Jul. 2019, 2:20 am Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d, 
> < digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> I never called you crazy, or anything remotely like that.
>>
>
> Just kill me and bring me peace.
> I lose my mind trying to argue with you, and get so frustrated 
> and angry, I
> just have to take a week or 2 timeout.
> I feel like this community just grinds my life away slowly but 
> steadily and
> I hate participating, but I'm in too deep. I just want to kick 
> my goal and
> get on with my job!
> Everything is just so hard, and so very weird.
> Why can't stuff just be predictable? Why does everything have 
> to have weird
> special case rules and strange edge cases?
>
> My biggest trouble with D recently had been trying to explain 
> it to people,
> and make them not lose confidence when they run in to a long 
> series of
> stuff like this.
> I have to try and explain weird shit like it's got a good 
> reason with a
> straight face, and I just can't do that on so many accounts!
> This is D's biggest enemy in 2019, I'm sure of it.
>

I definitely agree that D as a language has taken on way way too 
much complexity, and is taking on more complexity all the time, 
it's not sustainable and we *need* to get on top of it, somehow, 
though I have no idea what can be done.

That said, imo you should *definitely* take a break on this; you 
sound like you're one negative feedback away from burnout.