C is Brittle D is Plastic

[Sergey]

On Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 13:20:16 UTC, Quirin Schroll wrote:
> 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.

For example languages like Rust, Go, and C++ deliberately avoid 
property syntax because:
- It hides computation behind field access
- Makes performance less obvious
- Reduces clarity (is it a field or a function?)