I dunno, I'm not willing to overlook null values or default zero-values that easily. Those cause me problems all the time, and they are not meaningfully simpler than the alternative (explicit assignment).
Or mutability modifiers. Yes, that's an extra feature, and there's an undeniable appeal to having fewer features. But being able to flag things as immutable will make all the code you deal with easier in future.
Or consider how they left out generics for 15 years. It simplifies the language in some ways, sure, but when you needed generics, you had to use reflection, which is way more complicated than generics. Even macros, unpopular as they are, are better than codegen.
Again, I understand the appeal of minimalism, but a cost/benefit analysis of any of these features shows them to be a massive net gain. A blanket policy of "no, we can't have nice things" is needlessly austere, and it leaves everyone worse off imo.
Or mutability modifiers. Yes, that's an extra feature, and there's an undeniable appeal to having fewer features. But being able to flag things as immutable will make all the code you deal with easier in future.
Or consider how they left out generics for 15 years. It simplifies the language in some ways, sure, but when you needed generics, you had to use reflection, which is way more complicated than generics. Even macros, unpopular as they are, are better than codegen.
Again, I understand the appeal of minimalism, but a cost/benefit analysis of any of these features shows them to be a massive net gain. A blanket policy of "no, we can't have nice things" is needlessly austere, and it leaves everyone worse off imo.