On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 00:38:21 UTC, Mike wrote:
IMO, part of the problem is that D has the wrong defaults (e.g. `immutable` by default, `@safe` by default, `final` by default, etc...), so users have to opt in to these things when they should really only be opting out of them. Unfortunately, changing this would be disruptive and will probably never happen without a fork.
If/when D 3.0 happens, as a breaking change, hopefully the defaults can be made to be better right defaults. (D 1.x to D 2.x had *cough* some breaking changes.)
I also hope that for D 3.0, both Walter and Andrei play with F# or OCaml for a while. There's a lot of Good Things in F# and OCaml that perhaps could be considered for D 3.0.
