D is for Data Science

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 11/24/2014 4:50 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 00:34:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Thought I'd post this as a counterpoint to the recent "please break our code"
>> thread.
>
> I would caution against putting very much weight in Reddit opinions - there's
> people who will never use D and just look for excuses to justify their prejudice
> and there's people who think they want something, but don't really have any idea
> (this is common in feature requests, as I'm sure you know)
>
> That comment, in particular, seems very questionable to me. dstats at least
> compiles out of the box and has github activity within the last few months. It
> has a lot of templates, so maybe actually using it would reveal compilation
> problems, but at quick glance it seems to work.

I know it's a tough call. But I do see these sorts of comments regularly, and it 
is a fact that there are too many D libraries gone to seed that won't compile 
anymore, and that makes us look bad.