https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16423
--- Comment #8 from Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com> --- Whether we need it or not, it's currently a feature of the runtime. Do we not care about existing code anymore? I'm totally in favor of deprecating Object.factory, and also in favor of your update to std.encoding that makes this issue moot for phobos at least. But there may be code out there which expects Object.factory to work, and in some cases, it will not. Note, that in the example I give, including the module info does little to increase the binary size. The ClassInfo is already present in the binary, and therefore pulls in everything else the class may use. Not only that, but building with the -lib switch does not work, but building without does. This kind of inconsistency is not good for D, regardless of the utility of the Object.factory feature. It makes no sense that the compiler is "stupider" about trimming fat when it has full code access than the linker. --
