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On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 11:30:02 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>There are some useful language features that are missing. For example, I want to be able to return multiple values from a function and assign them to multiple variables, which is a feature that is implemented by pretty much every other programming language (even C++17 in the form of "structured binding"). But if somebody says that we can have it in D only in a way that breaks the existing software, then this won't make me happy and you will see some "resistance".
I believe tuples and structured binding in C++ is just syntactical sugar over returning a struct, so I don't think it should be considered a breaking change.
Anyway, the landscape is changing, I think for many programmers in 2023 considers Java/C#, TypeScript, Python and C++20 as a baseline. So for a language to stand out it either has to match the most useful features of those languages or add something truly unique.
Modern C# and Python provides a rich and fairly consistent user experience too, so that raises the bar for all other languages.
The seemingly ever-increasing use of cloud/GPU for heavy lifting makes that more pronounced too. And this trend will continue as GPUs and compilers targeting GPUs become more and more flexible.