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Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today by d0m on Friday October 11, 2013 @07:02PM (#6536381)
>> know that there are actually good reasons for (some/most) of the verbosity.

This is why I talked about the philosophy of the language. I wasn't arguing about whether it was good or bad.

That being said, for my own use cases, verbosity is a big deal.

>> In C++ stdlib does not get to reserve names at global namespace, which leads slightly increased verbosity (std:: -prefixes or using-statements).

I understand and agree, but you'd have to agree with me that if you start naming your classes Map and Vector, you're looking for problems ;-)

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