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In response to GP post, it's a valid concerns to programmers (to some extend to machine in form of AI/LLM code generation cost see ref [1]), and certainly we have nice things in programming language as D language aptly shows.

Aspects of language design that are way more important are: the semantics, including type system, memory model, concurrency model, module system and so on; tooling; performance; FFI and OS interface; and lots of other things.

D have pretty much all of aspects of your main concerns and being much better than Rust and Go [1].

[1] Language Plasticity is More Important Than Ever:

https://blog.dlang.org/2026/08/10/language-plasticity-is-mor...

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