What are the prominent downsides of the D programming language?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 9/29/20 9:07 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 September 2020 at 13:01:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> there's no need. People get along swimmingly without having to specify 
>> types. It also makes your code much more robust.
> 
> I like type inference and flow typing, but it does not make code more 
> robust.
> 
> Specifying twice makes code more robust.

If you decide to change your type from e.g. int to long, then you don't 
need to go edit all the places you declared things.

Just works.

I supposed I should have said more generic.

-Steve