Why is D unpopular, redux.

[Max Samukha]

On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 21:24:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

>
> For example, many years ago, only one person asked for User 
> Defined Attributes (Manu). He made a compelling case for it. I 
> implemented it. The result was a lot of pushback from the 
> community.
>

I'll tell you why we didn't ask for them. We were brain-washed 
into believing that the language needed to be minimalistic, 
avoided feature creep, was easy for a compiler writer to 
implement, etc. So, we just tried to emulate them with static 
members in silence and pain. The compelling cases for UDAs have 
been demonstrated by other languages long before Manu.