On Sun, 9 Aug 2020, 4:00 am Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d, <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

Weak symbols (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_symbol) are not often
needed, but they are, they're needed badly.

C and C++ define __attribute__((weak)) to introduce weak symbols. It
would be great if D could have a corresponding @weak attribute.

I feel like you're not the first person that's said this...