No we should not support enum types derived from strings

[Imperatorn]

On Monday, 10 May 2021 at 22:58:41 UTC, deadalnix wrote:

> At this point, the decision made is to push the madness on the 
> user. Fair enough, but if the standard lib devs are not willing 
> to put up with it, why in hell would you expect anyone else to? 
> Just look at what's in the C++ standard lib or boost and 
> compare to your average C++ project to see the kind of gap in 
> term of motivation to put up with bullshit exists between 
> standard lib devs and Joe coder. It's not even close.
>
> This stuff ain't working properly so let's just given getting 
> to work at all is not how you iterate toward a great useful 
> product.

+1

We *must* focus more on consistency and soundness imo. I've heard 
several users talk about this. So it's nice to see it being 
talked about here. The way for D forward is to polish up D2. 
Maybe have 2.100.0 as a goal. Like any project, it needs 
milestones. We should take a pause, look around and see, we're 
now in the "optimizing" phase. We can at least try. Then after 
2.100.0 for example we can start talking about new cool features 
again.