Nim programming language finally hit 1.0

[JN]

On Sunday, 29 September 2019 at 22:27:40 UTC, Joakim Brännström 
wrote:
> The development of D is mostly done by voluteres which mean 
> that I am grateful for all their time and work.
> I do not expect much in the way of support or that *they* 
> listen to me.
> In the same way I do not expect it from any other language I 
> use.
> The few times I have asked for help there has always been 
> someone that can provide it.
> Last time it was kinke in fixing an ldc bug (thank you).
>
> // Joakim

This is true. However, given that it's a volunteer project, there 
is room for improvement. If the workforce is limited, it's spread 
over the language/libraries surface. If we were to minimize that 
surface, we can have more work done.

I think D shouldn't be afraid to cut some of the language 
features which aren't used much, or have a viable workaround. 
This way the language would be smaller and easier to 
maintain/bugfix. Also, smaller language means lesser chance of 
bugs occuring in the first place. Right now I feel like D is in 
that weird spot. It's too afraid to cut or rework existing 
features for language stability, but then is too brave 
introducing new concepts which weren't battle-tested before.

Main issues with D aren't with the specific features, which often 
came up as a good idea and solve some problem, but the problem is 
when these features interact with other features. The result is a 
lot of unexpected interactions (look at any DIP discussion 
thread, there's always a case of "yeah but this breaks if I have 
an immutable shared union with alias this"), added cognitive load 
for the programmer and harder to write generic code.