D has become unbearable and it needs to stop

[Dukc]

On Friday, 30 June 2023 at 17:55:38 UTC, Z3Solver wrote:
> It feels like you need to take the Symmetry approach of writing 
> your own standard library (and be incredibly selective about 
> which features you use - e.g. the majority of Mir is written 
> with @safe @pure @nogc, which made it an absolute joy to work 
> with) just to even be able to use it in a remotely productive 
> way.

This is a misunderstanding. The standard library whose core 
Symmetry based on Phobos is for the internal Symmetry Integration 
Languge, SIL. D code in Symmetry still uses Phobos as-is. Sure, 
we sometimes copy-paste a function out of it to modify it 
slightly, and sometimes use third-party (or internal) libraries 
when we're unsatisfied with what Phobos offers, but `std` is 
still widely used.

Also, at least my experience is that the list of D features to 
not use at Symmetry are stylistic choices. There's no general ban 
on technological D features like the garbage collector, `@system` 
code or global variables (although of course we prefer to avoid 
the latter two when other things are equal, like any good D 
programmer).