C is Brittle D is Plastic

[Quirin Schroll]

On Sunday, 22 March 2026 at 12:23:28 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 March 2026 at 11:56:00 UTC, Dennis wrote:
>> You don't need to change `.end` into `.end()`, `.end` works on 
>> both fields and methods.
>
> Some languages consider this as a downside. Because of clarity 
> for human or llm who is reading the code - which is trying to 
> understand what is it method or field, structure or pointer to 
> the structure..

That’s an odd take. C# and Kotlin have properties since day one 
and it’s considered a win for each. Neither human nor AI should 
care if it’s a property or a field. The whole point of properties 
is being largely equivalent to fields when used. The rather 
annoying thing about D is that properties aren’t really 
first-class, but piggy-backed on functions.